[digiKam-users] More fighting with DigiKam

[James Orr-2]

I really do want to like and use DigiKam. It is getting harder to succeed.

Several weeks ago, I asked about what to do when DigiKam would not
record and use Pick Labels and Color Labels. I use Windows 10 on a very
capable machine. I've upgraded to a couple of git versions, and now to
6.1.0. I still cannot get these features to work.

I'm now preparing to copy several thousand images (prints and slides) I
made in Turkey in 1985-1986. A pick list would be very useful. I also
want to tag images with keywords to help me find the images I want after
they are all digitized. So, I tried simply to add the word "Turkey" to
no avail. I get a dialogue box that tells me "An error occurred during
tag creation" and" /Turkey failed to add tag to database".
I think these are all related to database management.

I looking in my D:\Pictures folder and found this file name:
.~lock.digikam4.db# (dated in 02-2019) I renamed it to
.~lock.digikam4.db#.old. Nothing changed in my attempt to add a tag.

So, I wonder what is next for me to do.

[James Orr]

Re-sending from my normal account.

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Subject:	More fighting with DigiKam
Date:	Tue, 23 Apr 2019 10:15:06 -0700
From:	James Orr [hidden email]
To:	digikam-users-group--kde.org [hidden email]

I really do want to like and use DigiKam. It is getting harder to succeed.

Several weeks ago, I asked about what to do when DigiKam would not record and use Pick Labels and Color Labels. I use Windows 10 on a very capable machine. I've upgraded to a couple of git versions, and now to 6.1.0. I still cannot get these features to work.

I'm now preparing to copy several thousand images (prints and slides) I made in Turkey in 1985-1986. A pick list would be very useful. I also want to tag images with keywords to help me find the images I want after they are all digitized. So, I tried simply to add the word "Turkey" to no avail. I get a dialogue box that tells me "An error occurred during tag creation" and" /Turkey failed to add tag to database".
I think these are all related to database management.

I looking in my D:\Pictures folder and found this file name: .~lock.digikam4.db# (dated in 02-2019) I renamed it to .~lock.digikam4.db#.old. Nothing changed in my attempt to add a tag.

So, I wonder what is next for me to do.

[woenx]

This is very odd. Tagging files works perfectly for me. I have literally
tagged thousands of them, and the tags are saved in the metadata and in the
database.

I know it's kinda obvious, but do you have write access to those files? In
what format are they? JPG? TIFF? What operating system do you use? Do you
have the same problem with more recent pictures, or only for that folder?



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[Rob D]

James, do you have the slash "/" in the tag you are trying to add? If so, maybe try it without the slash. Like others, I have tagged thousands of photos with no issues. I even live dangerously and write all metadata back to the original files (not .xmp's) without any issues (so far).

Rob

On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 09:48 -0700, James Orr wrote:

Re-sending from my normal account.

-------- Forwarded Message --------

Subject:	More fighting with DigiKam
Date:	Tue, 23 Apr 2019 10:15:06 -0700
From:	James Orr [hidden email]
To:	digikam-users-group--kde.org [hidden email]

I really do want to like and use DigiKam. It is getting harder to succeed.

Several weeks ago, I asked about what to do when DigiKam would not record and use Pick Labels and Color Labels. I use Windows 10 on a very capable machine. I've upgraded to a couple of git versions, and now to 6.1.0. I still cannot get these features to work.

I'm now preparing to copy several thousand images (prints and slides) I made in Turkey in 1985-1986. A pick list would be very useful. I also want to tag images with keywords to help me find the images I want after they are all digitized. So, I tried simply to add the word "Turkey" to no avail. I get a dialogue box that tells me "An error occurred during tag creation" and" /Turkey failed to add tag to database".
I think these are all related to database management.

I looking in my D:\Pictures folder and found this file name: .~lock.digikam4.db# (dated in 02-2019) I renamed it to .~lock.digikam4.db#.old. Nothing changed in my attempt to add a tag.

So, I wonder what is next for me to do.

[James Orr]

I am using Win 10 Pro on a CyberPower tower configured desktop computer.

3.70 gigahertz Intel Core i7-8700K
Board: ASRock Z370 SLI Xtreme
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
16318 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
ADATA SU650 [Hard drive] (480.10 GB) for programs
Two TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 [Hard drive] (3000.59 GB) mirrored for data. My Pictures folder lives here.

On 4/24/2019 12:02 PM, woenx wrote:

This is very odd. Tagging files works perfectly for me. I have literally
tagged thousands of them, and the tags are saved in the metadata and in the
database.

I know it's kinda obvious, but do you have write access to those files? In
what format are they? JPG? TIFF? What operating system do you use? Do you
have the same problem with more recent pictures, or only for that folder?



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[James Orr]

When I went through the process of adding the tag "Turkey" I tried both options in the initial window (with and without the initial "/". Neither was accepted.

On 4/24/2019 12:46 PM, Rob Dueckman wrote:

James, do you have the slash "/" in the tag you are trying to add? If so, maybe try it without the slash. Like others, I have tagged thousands of photos with no issues. I even live dangerously and write all metadata back to the original files (not .xmp's) without any issues (so far).

Rob

On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 09:48 -0700, James Orr wrote:

Re-sending from my normal account.

-------- Forwarded Message --------

Subject:	More fighting with DigiKam
Date:	Tue, 23 Apr 2019 10:15:06 -0700
From:	James Orr [hidden email]
To:	digikam-users-group--kde.org [hidden email]

I really do want to like and use DigiKam. It is getting harder to succeed.

Several weeks ago, I asked about what to do when DigiKam would not record and use Pick Labels and Color Labels. I use Windows 10 on a very capable machine. I've upgraded to a couple of git versions, and now to 6.1.0. I still cannot get these features to work.

I'm now preparing to copy several thousand images (prints and slides) I made in Turkey in 1985-1986. A pick list would be very useful. I also want to tag images with keywords to help me find the images I want after they are all digitized. So, I tried simply to add the word "Turkey" to no avail. I get a dialogue box that tells me "An error occurred during tag creation" and" /Turkey failed to add tag to database".
I think these are all related to database management.

I looking in my D:\Pictures folder and found this file name: .~lock.digikam4.db# (dated in 02-2019) I renamed it to .~lock.digikam4.db#.old. Nothing changed in my attempt to add a tag.

So, I wonder what is next for me to do.

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi, 

To understand where is the problem under your Windows 10 computer, please install the DebugView program from Microsoft as explained here :

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/

DebugView will catch all low level debug messages generated by digiKam while running (under Linuc these kind of traces are printed on the console)

Just report the debug statements here to investiguate.

Q : did you use an Anti-Virus of your Windows 10 computer ?

Best 

Gilles Caulier 

Le jeu. 25 avr. 2019 à 02:01, James Orr <[hidden email]> a écrit :

When I went through the process of adding the tag "Turkey" I tried both options in the initial window (with and without the initial "/". Neither was accepted.

On 4/24/2019 12:46 PM, Rob Dueckman wrote:

James, do you have the slash "/" in the tag you are trying to add? If so, maybe try it without the slash. Like others, I have tagged thousands of photos with no issues. I even live dangerously and write all metadata back to the original files (not .xmp's) without any issues (so far).

Rob

On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 09:48 -0700, James Orr wrote:

Re-sending from my normal account.

-------- Forwarded Message --------

Subject:	More fighting with DigiKam
Date:	Tue, 23 Apr 2019 10:15:06 -0700
From:	James Orr [hidden email]
To:	digikam-users-group--kde.org [hidden email]

I really do want to like and use DigiKam. It is getting harder to succeed.

Several weeks ago, I asked about what to do when DigiKam would not record and use Pick Labels and Color Labels. I use Windows 10 on a very capable machine. I've upgraded to a couple of git versions, and now to 6.1.0. I still cannot get these features to work.

I'm now preparing to copy several thousand images (prints and slides) I made in Turkey in 1985-1986. A pick list would be very useful. I also want to tag images with keywords to help me find the images I want after they are all digitized. So, I tried simply to add the word "Turkey" to no avail. I get a dialogue box that tells me "An error occurred during tag creation" and" /Turkey failed to add tag to database".
I think these are all related to database management.

I looking in my D:\Pictures folder and found this file name: .~lock.digikam4.db# (dated in 02-2019) I renamed it to .~lock.digikam4.db#.old. Nothing changed in my attempt to add a tag.

So, I wonder what is next for me to do.

[hajo]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 7:58 AM James Orr <[hidden email]> wrote:

Writing metadata _to_ the CR2? That's generally a bad idea in any case; did you try to write to sidecars instead? CR2 is an undocumented format, writing metadata there is considered highly experimental and might corrupt your data. Not even sure if Digikam supports this in the first instance, I never dared trying ;-)