Trapped in digiKam for KDE on windows beta5

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I'm still running 1.0.0 beta5.  Before I make any serious attempts to upgrade it, I'd like to write all the tags to the image files, just in case I mess it all up and have to start from scratch.

I tried the various commands to write metadata to files, but they didn't appear to do anything.  They ran without complaint, but I could find no tags in any images that should have them.  I ended up enabling the option Settings/Configure/Metadata/Save image tags, then they began to function. Is that what that option is supposed to do?  I had assumed it enabled the immediate writing of tags as they were set or altered, not that it would enable/disable ALL writing of metadata.  Is this how it functions in the final release?

Anyway, now that it was working, I tried the Tools/Write metadata to all images comnmand.  This ground to a halt after a while, at 31% done.  Not a crash, just sitting there doing nothing.    I've tried aborting and restarting, and it always stops after a while.  Is this a known bug that has been fixed since beta5?

So now I'm stuck.  I don't want to experiment with upgrades till I've saved the tags, but I can't save them.
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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> I'm still running 1.0.0 beta5.  Before I make any serious attempts to
>  upgrade it, I'd like to write all the tags to the image files, just in
>  case I mess it all up and have to start from scratch.

We strongly recommend to upgrade.

> I tried the various commands to write metadata to files, but they didn't
>  appear to do anything.  They ran without complaint, but I could find no
>  tags in any images that should have them.  I ended up enabling the option
>  Settings/Configure/Metadata/Save image tags, then they began to function.
>  Is that what that option is supposed to do?  I had assumed it enabled the
>  immediate writing of tags as they were set or altered, not that it would
>  enable/disable ALL writing of metadata.  Is this how it functions in the
>  final release?

It enables writing tags whenever you write metadata to an image. When you just
added a tag, or when you do it in a batch.

>
> Anyway, now that it was working, I tried the Tools/Write metadata to all
>  images comnmand.  This ground to a halt after a while, at 31% done.  Not a
>  crash, just sitting there doing nothing.    I've tried aborting and
>  restarting, and it always stops after a while.  Is this a known bug that
>  has been fixed since beta5?

Dont expect us to go through the 200 bugs fixed since then. Just update.
Updating from beta5 doesn't change your images nor your db.

>
> So now I'm stuck.  I don't want to experiment with upgrades till I've saved
>  the tags, but I can't save them.

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Marcel Wiesweg wrote on Monday, 11 January 2010 2:14 AM:

> Dont expect us to go through the 200 bugs fixed since then. Just
> update.
> Updating from beta5 doesn't change your images nor your db.
>
>>
>> So now I'm stuck.  I don't want to experiment with upgrades till I've
>> saved  the tags, but I can't save them.

The reason I'm reluctant to upgrade before saving the metadata is that I somehow overwrote my database while attempting to upgrade soon after I started using digiKam.  Does an uninstall delete it?  I think I tried that at one stage.  It was only a minor annoyance at the time, no tags lost, just a lot of time rebuilding thumbnails.

I had a bit of a go at trying to compile it, but the instructions I found didn't seem to work - there were components the instructions said to install that I didn't find to be available for installing, I don't know why.

Saving the metadata an album at a time seems to work, so I'll do that and then have another go at compiling it.
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Peter Shute wrote on Monday, 11 January 2010 10:54 AM:

> I had a bit of a go at trying to compile it, but the instructions I
> found didn't seem to work - there were components the instructions
> said to install that I didn't find to be available for installing, I
> don't know why.  

I wonder if the Windows KDE mailing list would be a better place to discuss compiling digiKam?
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[Julien Narboux]

Peter Shute a écrit :

> Marcel Wiesweg wrote on Monday, 11 January 2010 2:14 AM:
>
>  
>> Dont expect us to go through the 200 bugs fixed since then. Just
>> update.
>> Updating from beta5 doesn't change your images nor your db.
>>
>>    
>>> So now I'm stuck.  I don't want to experiment with upgrades till I've
>>> saved  the tags, but I can't save them.
>>>      
>
> The reason I'm reluctant to upgrade before saving the metadata is that I somehow overwrote my database while attempting to upgrade soon after I started using digiKam.  Does an uninstall delete it?  I think I tried that at one stage.  It was only a minor annoyance at the time, no tags lost, just a lot of time rebuilding thumbnails.
>  

You can always make a copy of digikam4.db before the upgrade in case
anything goes wrong.


> I had a bit of a go at trying to compile it, but the instructions I found didn't seem to work - there were components the instructions said to install that I didn't find to be available for installing, I don't know why.
>
>  
> Saving the metadata an album at a time seems to work, so I'll do that and then have another go at compiling it.
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