[digiKam-users] updating pictures outside of digikam?

[Peter Teuben]

I sometimes wind up doing certain things outside of digikam, and here I
have a case I don't quite understand why it doesn't work exactly as I
think it should.

I should add that in the collections tab I have the options tagged that
monitors albums for external changes (and it says this needs a restart).
So when I add or delete pictures, digikam nicely tracks that.

My problem is when I have a symlink to a photo, then add a caption, it
shows up locally in the symlink location. but it doesn't show up at the
source. Even after a restart. It must be in there, as I refresh the
folder with the symlinks, it shows the caption.  I've also confirmed the
source photos have the captions, the timestamps were changed, exiftools
shows it, but digikam doesn't show the caption that was added via the
symlink .... Is there another way to rebuild the captions in the DB ?

But isn't this a bug?  I just ran into something similar with snaps,
they cannot handle a home directory which is a symlink (apparently mount
with the bind option might resolve that). So there's another reason not
to use snaps for digikam :-)

- peter


PS: since I have my photos organized by yyyy/mm/dd folders, the folder
with symlink is a folder that collects all photos taken on a given date
(e.g. May 25, but any year).  This is not in the advanced search
options, and in the timeline this is doable, but very difficult.

[Remco Viëtor]

On lundi 25 mai 2020 17:28:37 CEST Peter Teuben wrote:

> I sometimes wind up doing certain things outside of digikam, and here I
> have a case I don't quite understand why it doesn't work exactly as I
> think it should.
>
> I should add that in the collections tab I have the options tagged that
> monitors albums for external changes (and it says this needs a restart).
> So when I add or delete pictures, digikam nicely tracks that.
>
> My problem is when I have a symlink to a photo, then add a caption, it
> shows up locally in the symlink location. but it doesn't show up at the
> source. Even after a restart. It must be in there, as I refresh the
> folder with the symlinks, it shows the caption.  I've also confirmed the
> source photos have the captions, the timestamps were changed, exiftools
> shows it, but digikam doesn't show the caption that was added via the
> symlink .... Is there another way to rebuild the captions in the DB ?
>
> But isn't this a bug?  I just ran into something similar with snaps,
> they cannot handle a home directory which is a symlink (apparently mount
> with the bind option might resolve that). So there's another reason not
> to use snaps for digikam :-)
>

Are you using side car files? and are those also symlinks, or local files?
(i.e. if you have IMG1.jpg as a symlink to .../cc/img_1.jpg,
do you have a sidecar IMG1.jpg.xmp, and is it a local file, or a symlink to
.../cc/img_1.jpg/xmp ?)

Not sure that this plays a role, but...

Remco

[Peter Teuben]

I did forget to mention this:   I am not using sidecar, I'm storing the
captions internally,

i can see the sidecar method being more complicated (well, I guess just
adding more synmlinks), but my case should be "easier".

I'm more thinking of the problem I saw with snaps (this is a known problem)

On 5/25/20 11:35 AM, Remco Viëtor wrote:

> On lundi 25 mai 2020 17:28:37 CEST Peter Teuben wrote:
>> I sometimes wind up doing certain things outside of digikam, and here I
>> have a case I don't quite understand why it doesn't work exactly as I
>> think it should.
>>
>> I should add that in the collections tab I have the options tagged that
>> monitors albums for external changes (and it says this needs a restart).
>> So when I add or delete pictures, digikam nicely tracks that.
>>
>> My problem is when I have a symlink to a photo, then add a caption, it
>> shows up locally in the symlink location. but it doesn't show up at the
>> source. Even after a restart. It must be in there, as I refresh the
>> folder with the symlinks, it shows the caption.  I've also confirmed the
>> source photos have the captions, the timestamps were changed, exiftools
>> shows it, but digikam doesn't show the caption that was added via the
>> symlink .... Is there another way to rebuild the captions in the DB ?
>>
>> But isn't this a bug?  I just ran into something similar with snaps,
>> they cannot handle a home directory which is a symlink (apparently mount
>> with the bind option might resolve that). So there's another reason not
>> to use snaps for digikam :-)
>>
> Are you using side car files? and are those also symlinks, or local files?
> (i.e. if you have IMG1.jpg as a symlink to .../cc/img_1.jpg,
> do you have a sidecar IMG1.jpg.xmp, and is it a local file, or a symlink to
> .../cc/img_1.jpg/xmp ?)
>
> Not sure that this plays a role, but...
>
> Remco
>
>
>