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Daniel Bauer

digikam shows wrong colors, why?

Hello,

I made an xcf-image in gimp containg several text-lines in different
colors. Finally saved as .png.

All programs (gimp, gwenview, showphoto, GPicView...) show it correctly,
but digikam shows one line in red with white border instead of a white
line...

See screenshot (the e-mail-address):

as it should be: http://www.daniel-bauer.com/test/digikam_color1.jpg
as digikam shows it: http://www.daniel-bauer.com/test/digikam_color.jpg

It makes me quite insecure, because the png should go into printing. Is
it an error of gimp/png (that other programs ignore) or an error or
digiKam? And where does it take the red from?

I can send the original png to a developper, if needed (12 MB).

Thanks for clarification.

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tosca

Re: digikam shows wrong colors, why?

I think I answered this question a couple of days ago ... just turn off the overexposure notification in Digikam, and it should be fine.

Marie-Noëlle

2012/7/19 Daniel Bauer <[hidden email]>

Hello,

I made an xcf-image in gimp containg several text-lines in different colors. Finally saved as .png.

All programs (gimp, gwenview, showphoto, GPicView...) show it correctly, but digikam shows one line in red with white border instead of a white line...

See screenshot (the e-mail-address):

as it should be: http://www.daniel-bauer.com/test/digikam_color1.jpg
as digikam shows it: http://www.daniel-bauer.com/test/digikam_color.jpg

It makes me quite insecure, because the png should go into printing. Is it an error of gimp/png (that other programs ignore) or an error or digiKam? And where does it take the red from?

I can send the original png to a developper, if needed (12 MB).

Thanks for clarification.

Daniel
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e-mail robert.m.davies

Re: digikam shows wrong colors, why?

Indeed - the text is white, and digikam notifies you of this, so you can identify overexposed areas of photos. You can turn it off as Marie-Noëlle says. The red colour is defined in the preferences somewhere I believe.

Rob

On 23 July 2012 13:57, Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]> wrote:

I think I answered this question a couple of days ago ... just turn off the overexposure notification in Digikam, and it should be fine.

Marie-Noëlle

2012/7/19 Daniel Bauer <[hidden email]>

Hello,

I made an xcf-image in gimp containg several text-lines in different colors. Finally saved as .png.

All programs (gimp, gwenview, showphoto, GPicView...) show it correctly, but digikam shows one line in red with white border instead of a white line...

See screenshot (the e-mail-address):

as it should be: http://www.daniel-bauer.com/tMy salary currently varies through the year, though it is safe to assume that it is lower than most IT jobs currently offer.est/digikam_color1.jpg
as digikam shows it: http://www.daniel-bauer.com/test/digikam_color.jpg

It makes me quite insecure, because the png should go into printing. Is it an error of gimp/png (that other programs ignore) or an error or digiKam? And where does it take the red from?

I can send the original png to a developper, if needed (12 MB).

Thanks for clarification.

Daniel
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Daniel Bauer-2

Re: digikam shows wrong colors, SOLVED

Hello Marie-Noelle and Rob

Yes, it's the same question, and it is solved: as you said, it's the
over-exposure notification and I wasn't aware of that...

The mail came twice to the list, because I first sent it with my address
"daniel@..." which is not subscribed to this list, thus I received an
error message and I sent it again with my address "linux@..." which is
suibscribed here. Now the first mail made it to the list, too...

So, sorry for the noise, and thanks for the help.

Daniel

Am 23.07.2012 17:27, schrieb e-mail robert.m.davies:

> Indeed - the text is white, and digikam notifies you of this, so you can
> identify overexposed areas of photos. You can turn it off as
> Marie-Noëlle says. The red colour is defined in the preferences
> somewhere I believe.
>
> Rob
>
> On 23 July 2012 13:57, Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]
> <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>
> I think I answered this question a couple of days ago ... just turn
> off the overexposure notification in Digikam, and it should be fine.
>
> Marie-Noëlle
>

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Stuart T Rogers

Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

I am now running 2.7 and still digikam will not recognise that several
of the photos on my Canon SX10IS camera are not new.

I simply do not understand why this is so hard to get to work properly,
it used to work OK on 1.9 properly. The photos filenames are still the
same for those already downloaded, and the meta data is there. This
should not be rocket science, everything in the database is there to
recognise that some of these images have already been downloaded so why
on earth can digikam get it so wrong? Sorry but I cannot see any excuse
not to fix this....

Sorry for the rant but this is becoming a real nuisance and annoyance
especially as it is a problem which used not to exist!

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Stuart T Rogers

Re: Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

Following my rant the other day I have done some testing using both the
camera and the USB card reader. I am running digikam 2.7.0 with gphoto2
at 2.4.14.

All the photos on the camera were downloaded a few days ago so there are
no new ones to download. All photos are visible in the correct folder in
digikam.

My Canon SX10IS is detected OK but all photos on the card are displayed
as new whether I use the auto-detected option or the one I had pre-defined.

So next I added my USB card reader and put the card directly into it,
again all the displayed photos on the card come up as new.

At no time have I been able to get this working now for absolutely ages.

Can anyone suggest where to go from here please? I am willing to try and
debug this but have no idea where to start.

Stuart

On 07/23/2012 09:26 PM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:

> I am now running 2.7 and still digikam will not recognise that several
> of the photos on my Canon SX10IS camera are not new.
>
> I simply do not understand why this is so hard to get to work properly,
> it used to work OK on 1.9 properly. The photos filenames are still the
> same for those already downloaded, and the meta data is there. This
> should not be rocket science, everything in the database is there to
> recognise that some of these images have already been downloaded so why
> on earth can digikam get it so wrong? Sorry but I cannot see any excuse
> not to fix this....
>
> Sorry for the rant but this is becoming a real nuisance and annoyance
> especially as it is a problem which used not to exist!
>
> Stuart

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Peter Albrecht

Re: Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

Hi Stuart,

this bug happens to me too, every now and than. But I had no
time to investigate this jet.

What I would do to debug:
I would try to find out, where digikams stores information
about pictures beeing old/new. Than I would look where
writing or reading this information fails.

But since I am only a digikam user - no developer - I do not
exactly know, where to look for. But I would first try the
digikam SQLite Database. ;)

Regards,
Peter

On 28.07.2012 16:15, Stuart T Rogers wrote:

> Following my rant the other day I have done some testing
> using both the camera and the USB card reader. I am running
> digikam 2.7.0 with gphoto2 at 2.4.14.
>
> All the photos on the camera were downloaded a few days ago
> so there are no new ones to download. All photos are visible
> in the correct folder in digikam.
>
> My Canon SX10IS is detected OK but all photos on the card
> are displayed as new whether I use the auto-detected option
> or the one I had pre-defined.
>
> So next I added my USB card reader and put the card directly
> into it, again all the displayed photos on the card come up
> as new.
>
> At no time have I been able to get this working now for
> absolutely ages.
>
> Can anyone suggest where to go from here please? I am
> willing to try and debug this but have no idea where to start.
>
> Stuart
>
> On 07/23/2012 09:26 PM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>> I am now running 2.7 and still digikam will not recognise
>> that several
>> of the photos on my Canon SX10IS camera are not new.
>>
>> I simply do not understand why this is so hard to get to
>> work properly,
>> it used to work OK on 1.9 properly. The photos filenames
>> are still the
>> same for those already downloaded, and the meta data is
>> there. This
>> should not be rocket science, everything in the database
>> is there to
>> recognise that some of these images have already been
>> downloaded so why
>> on earth can digikam get it so wrong? Sorry but I cannot
>> see any excuse
>> not to fix this....
>>
>> Sorry for the rant but this is becoming a real nuisance
>> and annoyance
>> especially as it is a problem which used not to exist!
>>
>> Stuart
>

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Stuart T Rogers

Re: Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

I can see all the photos correctly listed in the sqlite database so I
dont know what else to look for.

Stuart

On 07/28/2012 09:10 PM, Peter Albrecht wrote:

> Hi Stuart,
>
> this bug happens to me too, every now and than. But I had no
> time to investigate this jet.
>
> What I would do to debug:
> I would try to find out, where digikams stores information
> about pictures beeing old/new. Than I would look where
> writing or reading this information fails.
>
> But since I am only a digikam user - no developer - I do not
> exactly know, where to look for. But I would first try the
> digikam SQLite Database. ;)
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
> On 28.07.2012 16:15, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>> Following my rant the other day I have done some testing
>> using both the camera and the USB card reader. I am running
>> digikam 2.7.0 with gphoto2 at 2.4.14.
>>
>> All the photos on the camera were downloaded a few days ago
>> so there are no new ones to download. All photos are visible
>> in the correct folder in digikam.
>>
>> My Canon SX10IS is detected OK but all photos on the card
>> are displayed as new whether I use the auto-detected option
>> or the one I had pre-defined.
>>
>> So next I added my USB card reader and put the card directly
>> into it, again all the displayed photos on the card come up
>> as new.
>>
>> At no time have I been able to get this working now for
>> absolutely ages.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest where to go from here please? I am
>> willing to try and debug this but have no idea where to start.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> On 07/23/2012 09:26 PM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>> I am now running 2.7 and still digikam will not recognise
>>> that several
>>> of the photos on my Canon SX10IS camera are not new.
>>>
>>> I simply do not understand why this is so hard to get to
>>> work properly,
>>> it used to work OK on 1.9 properly. The photos filenames
>>> are still the
>>> same for those already downloaded, and the meta data is
>>> there. This
>>> should not be rocket science, everything in the database
>>> is there to
>>> recognise that some of these images have already been
>>> downloaded so why
>>> on earth can digikam get it so wrong? Sorry but I cannot
>>> see any excuse
>>> not to fix this....
>>>
>>> Sorry for the rant but this is becoming a real nuisance
>>> and annoyance
>>> especially as it is a problem which used not to exist!
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>
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Anders Stedtlund

Re: Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

There is probably a table having a relation between downloaded images
and the device they were downloaded from. I have had problems with
digikam not remember images downloaded from my Canon EOS 50d.

Now I use a external card reader and don't have the problem any
longer. I use digiKam 2.7.0 at the moment.

/Anders

2012/7/28 Stuart T Rogers <[hidden email]>:

> I can see all the photos correctly listed in the sqlite database so I dont
> know what else to look for.
>
> Stuart
>
>
> On 07/28/2012 09:10 PM, Peter Albrecht wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stuart,
>>
>> this bug happens to me too, every now and than. But I had no
>> time to investigate this jet.
>>
>> What I would do to debug:
>> I would try to find out, where digikams stores information
>> about pictures beeing old/new. Than I would look where
>> writing or reading this information fails.
>>
>> But since I am only a digikam user - no developer - I do not
>> exactly know, where to look for. But I would first try the
>> digikam SQLite Database. ;)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Peter
>>
>> On 28.07.2012 16:15, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>>
>>> Following my rant the other day I have done some testing
>>> using both the camera and the USB card reader. I am running
>>> digikam 2.7.0 with gphoto2 at 2.4.14.
>>>
>>> All the photos on the camera were downloaded a few days ago
>>> so there are no new ones to download. All photos are visible
>>> in the correct folder in digikam.
>>>
>>> My Canon SX10IS is detected OK but all photos on the card
>>> are displayed as new whether I use the auto-detected option
>>> or the one I had pre-defined.
>>>
>>> So next I added my USB card reader and put the card directly
>>> into it, again all the displayed photos on the card come up
>>> as new.
>>>
>>> At no time have I been able to get this working now for
>>> absolutely ages.
>>>
>>> Can anyone suggest where to go from here please? I am
>>> willing to try and debug this but have no idea where to start.
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>> On 07/23/2012 09:26 PM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am now running 2.7 and still digikam will not recognise
>>>> that several
>>>> of the photos on my Canon SX10IS camera are not new.
>>>>
>>>> I simply do not understand why this is so hard to get to
>>>> work properly,
>>>> it used to work OK on 1.9 properly. The photos filenames
>>>> are still the
>>>> same for those already downloaded, and the meta data is
>>>> there. This
>>>> should not be rocket science, everything in the database
>>>> is there to
>>>> recognise that some of these images have already been
>>>> downloaded so why
>>>> on earth can digikam get it so wrong? Sorry but I cannot
>>>> see any excuse
>>>> not to fix this....
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the rant but this is becoming a real nuisance
>>>> and annoyance
>>>> especially as it is a problem which used not to exist!
>>>>
>>>> Stuart
>>>
>>>
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Re: Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

2012/7/29 Anders Stedtlund <[hidden email]>

Now I use a external card reader and don't have the problem any
longer. I use digiKam 2.7.0 at the moment.

/Anders

I always use an external card reader, and I have the problem more often than not. It has been like for some time (for how long I can remember, in fact) whatever camera / card / card reader / Digikam version I use. I have learnt to not trust this function, and select each time what I definitely want to import.

It's a pity it's still not working.

Marie-Noëlle

Stuart T Rogers

Re: Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

In reply to this post by Anders Stedtlund

In my view even if it uses file name and device downloaded from there is
still no reason why this should not work.

I am still hoping someone who knows the internals can explain how this
works and whether this function is performed by digikam itself or relies
on some other code to detect this, that way I'll know where to open a
bug report.

I will try and see if digikam remembers by creating a new photo and
download it via the card reader, and then see if it comes up as new or
not on a second try.

I seem to remember that digikam gets it correct if you dont restart it
between attempts but again I'll have to test that.

This problem is such a pain to me as my wife does not like to clear
photos off her memory cards unless it gets full so I have to make sure I
know what has been downloaded already (or sit here skipping photos
manually and when you have 400+ its a pain).

Stuart

On 07/29/2012 08:32 AM, Anders Stedtlund wrote:

> There is probably a table having a relation between downloaded images
> and the device they were downloaded from. I have had problems with
> digikam not remember images downloaded from my Canon EOS 50d.
>
> Now I use a external card reader and don't have the problem any
> longer. I use digiKam 2.7.0 at the moment.
>
> /Anders
>
> 2012/7/28 Stuart T Rogers <[hidden email]>:
>> I can see all the photos correctly listed in the sqlite database so I dont
>> know what else to look for.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>> On 07/28/2012 09:10 PM, Peter Albrecht wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Stuart,
>>>
>>> this bug happens to me too, every now and than. But I had no
>>> time to investigate this jet.
>>>
>>> What I would do to debug:
>>> I would try to find out, where digikams stores information
>>> about pictures beeing old/new. Than I would look where
>>> writing or reading this information fails.
>>>
>>> But since I am only a digikam user - no developer - I do not
>>> exactly know, where to look for. But I would first try the
>>> digikam SQLite Database. ;)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> On 28.07.2012 16:15, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Following my rant the other day I have done some testing
>>>> using both the camera and the USB card reader. I am running
>>>> digikam 2.7.0 with gphoto2 at 2.4.14.
>>>>
>>>> All the photos on the camera were downloaded a few days ago
>>>> so there are no new ones to download. All photos are visible
>>>> in the correct folder in digikam.
>>>>
>>>> My Canon SX10IS is detected OK but all photos on the card
>>>> are displayed as new whether I use the auto-detected option
>>>> or the one I had pre-defined.
>>>>
>>>> So next I added my USB card reader and put the card directly
>>>> into it, again all the displayed photos on the card come up
>>>> as new.
>>>>
>>>> At no time have I been able to get this working now for
>>>> absolutely ages.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone suggest where to go from here please? I am
>>>> willing to try and debug this but have no idea where to start.
>>>>
>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>> On 07/23/2012 09:26 PM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am now running 2.7 and still digikam will not recognise
>>>>> that several
>>>>> of the photos on my Canon SX10IS camera are not new.
>>>>>
>>>>> I simply do not understand why this is so hard to get to
>>>>> work properly,
>>>>> it used to work OK on 1.9 properly. The photos filenames
>>>>> are still the
>>>>> same for those already downloaded, and the meta data is
>>>>> there. This
>>>>> should not be rocket science, everything in the database
>>>>> is there to
>>>>> recognise that some of these images have already been
>>>>> downloaded so why
>>>>> on earth can digikam get it so wrong? Sorry but I cannot
>>>>> see any excuse
>>>>> not to fix this....
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for the rant but this is becoming a real nuisance
>>>>> and annoyance
>>>>> especially as it is a problem which used not to exist!
>>>>>
>>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

2012/7/29 Stuart T Rogers <[hidden email]>

In my view even if it uses file name and device downloaded from there is still no reason why this should not work.

I am still hoping someone who knows the internals can explain how this works and whether this function is performed by digikam itself or relies on some other code to detect this, that way I'll know where to open a bug report.

I just searched the bug reports and found two:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285683
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281758

I will try and see if digikam remembers by creating a new photo and download it via the card reader, and then see if it comes up as new or not on a second try.

I seem to remember that digikam gets it correct if you dont restart it between attempts but again I'll have to test that.

This problem is such a pain to me as my wife does not like to clear photos off her memory cards unless it gets full so I have to make sure I know what has been downloaded already (or sit here skipping photos manually and when you have 400+ its a pain).

That's one of the reaisons (there are others) I import every time I'm back home from shooting, whether it's from a couple hours outing or a several days trip; it's easier to remember what pictures you've just taken. Of course, it's only a rather poor alternative 'solution'.

Marie-Noëlle

Stuart

On 07/29/2012 08:32 AM, Anders Stedtlund wrote:

There is probably a table having a relation between downloaded images
and the device they were downloaded from. I have had problems with
digikam not remember images downloaded from my Canon EOS 50d.

Now I use a external card reader and don't have the problem any
longer. I use digiKam 2.7.0 at the moment.

/Anders

2012/7/28 Stuart T Rogers <[hidden email]>:

I can see all the photos correctly listed in the sqlite database so I dont
know what else to look for.

Stuart

On 07/28/2012 09:10 PM, Peter Albrecht wrote:

Hi Stuart,

this bug happens to me too, every now and than. But I had no
time to investigate this jet.

What I would do to debug:
I would try to find out, where digikams stores information
about pictures beeing old/new. Than I would look where
writing or reading this information fails.

But since I am only a digikam user - no developer - I do not
exactly know, where to look for. But I would first try the
digikam SQLite Database. ;)

Regards,
Peter

On 28.07.2012 16:15, Stuart T Rogers wrote:

Following my rant the other day I have done some testing
using both the camera and the USB card reader. I am running
digikam 2.7.0 with gphoto2 at 2.4.14.

All the photos on the camera were downloaded a few days ago
so there are no new ones to download. All photos are visible
in the correct folder in digikam.

My Canon SX10IS is detected OK but all photos on the card
are displayed as new whether I use the auto-detected option
or the one I had pre-defined.

So next I added my USB card reader and put the card directly
into it, again all the displayed photos on the card come up
as new.

At no time have I been able to get this working now for
absolutely ages.

Can anyone suggest where to go from here please? I am
willing to try and debug this but have no idea where to start.

Stuart

On 07/23/2012 09:26 PM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:

I am now running 2.7 and still digikam will not recognise
that several
of the photos on my Canon SX10IS camera are not new.

I simply do not understand why this is so hard to get to
work properly,
it used to work OK on 1.9 properly. The photos filenames
are still the
same for those already downloaded, and the meta data is
there. This
should not be rocket science, everything in the database
is there to
recognise that some of these images have already been
downloaded so why
on earth can digikam get it so wrong? Sorry but I cannot
see any excuse
not to fix this....

Sorry for the rant but this is becoming a real nuisance
and annoyance
especially as it is a problem which used not to exist!

Stuart

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Stuart T Rogers

Re: Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

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Well I've just done some more testing.

First with USB reader and new photo on card, this is detected as new and
downloaded. I then closed digikam and re-opened and went to import from
card again and it was recognised as already downloaded. So looks like
USB reader does work OK.

Same photo accessed by plugging in camera and using autodetected camera
option shows photo as new, downloaded anyway and overwrote existing and
then showed up as already downloaded. I then selected the pre-defined
option for the camera and this same photo showed up as new. Closing and
re-opening digikam and the photo on the camera comes up as new on both
options.

Now from what I have seen here it does look like digikam considers the
origin of the photo (ie card reader or specific camera) as to whether or
not the photo is new. This is I suppose OK as people are likely to have
more than one camera, however this falls down when using a card reader
as all cards will be considered as the same device irrespective of which
camera they are from.

So as far as I can tell from this we have a problem with digikam and
cameras, now it also seems that gphoto is involved in this as well but I
dont know if gphoto actually does the determination of new or if this is
within digikam.

The bottom line here is that there IS a bug and to be honest it is also
a regression since this always used to work when I first started with
1.8 and 1.9 of digikam. I also feel it is quite important to resolve
this since for me one of the big advantages was to be able to use my
camera directly and just hit download new.

Stuart

On 07/29/2012 09:24 AM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:

> In my view even if it uses file name and device downloaded from there is
> still no reason why this should not work.
>
> I am still hoping someone who knows the internals can explain how this
> works and whether this function is performed by digikam itself or relies
> on some other code to detect this, that way I'll know where to open a
> bug report.
>
> I will try and see if digikam remembers by creating a new photo and
> download it via the card reader, and then see if it comes up as new or
> not on a second try.
>
> I seem to remember that digikam gets it correct if you dont restart it
> between attempts but again I'll have to test that.
>
> This problem is such a pain to me as my wife does not like to clear
> photos off her memory cards unless it gets full so I have to make sure I
> know what has been downloaded already (or sit here skipping photos
> manually and when you have 400+ its a pain).
>
> Stuart
>
> On 07/29/2012 08:32 AM, Anders Stedtlund wrote:
>> There is probably a table having a relation between downloaded images
>> and the device they were downloaded from. I have had problems with
>> digikam not remember images downloaded from my Canon EOS 50d.
>>
>> Now I use a external card reader and don't have the problem any
>> longer. I use digiKam 2.7.0 at the moment.
>>
>> /Anders
>>
>> 2012/7/28 Stuart T Rogers <[hidden email]>:
>>> I can see all the photos correctly listed in the sqlite database so I
>>> dont
>>> know what else to look for.
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/28/2012 09:10 PM, Peter Albrecht wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Stuart,
>>>>
>>>> this bug happens to me too, every now and than. But I had no
>>>> time to investigate this jet.
>>>>
>>>> What I would do to debug:
>>>> I would try to find out, where digikams stores information
>>>> about pictures beeing old/new. Than I would look where
>>>> writing or reading this information fails.
>>>>
>>>> But since I am only a digikam user - no developer - I do not
>>>> exactly know, where to look for. But I would first try the
>>>> digikam SQLite Database. ;)
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>> On 28.07.2012 16:15, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Following my rant the other day I have done some testing
>>>>> using both the camera and the USB card reader. I am running
>>>>> digikam 2.7.0 with gphoto2 at 2.4.14.
>>>>>
>>>>> All the photos on the camera were downloaded a few days ago
>>>>> so there are no new ones to download. All photos are visible
>>>>> in the correct folder in digikam.
>>>>>
>>>>> My Canon SX10IS is detected OK but all photos on the card
>>>>> are displayed as new whether I use the auto-detected option
>>>>> or the one I had pre-defined.
>>>>>
>>>>> So next I added my USB card reader and put the card directly
>>>>> into it, again all the displayed photos on the card come up
>>>>> as new.
>>>>>
>>>>> At no time have I been able to get this working now for
>>>>> absolutely ages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone suggest where to go from here please? I am
>>>>> willing to try and debug this but have no idea where to start.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stuart
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07/23/2012 09:26 PM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am now running 2.7 and still digikam will not recognise
>>>>>> that several
>>>>>> of the photos on my Canon SX10IS camera are not new.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I simply do not understand why this is so hard to get to
>>>>>> work properly,
>>>>>> it used to work OK on 1.9 properly. The photos filenames
>>>>>> are still the
>>>>>> same for those already downloaded, and the meta data is
>>>>>> there. This
>>>>>> should not be rocket science, everything in the database
>>>>>> is there to
>>>>>> recognise that some of these images have already been
>>>>>> downloaded so why
>>>>>> on earth can digikam get it so wrong? Sorry but I cannot
>>>>>> see any excuse
>>>>>> not to fix this....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry for the rant but this is becoming a real nuisance
>>>>>> and annoyance
>>>>>> especially as it is a problem which used not to exist!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stuart
>>>>>
>>>>>
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Stuart T Rogers

Re: Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos - solved for me at least

Well after waiting to get my main PC back from repair I have had another
look at this.

I had my camera added manually but of course when it gets plugged in it
is auto detected as well and I believe having two instances of the same
camera is causing the problem because I removed the manually added copy
and lo and behold it now remembers which photos are already downloaded.

So for me the problem seems solved for me at least. Dont know if this
helps others who have the problem.

Stuart

On 29/07/12 14:51, Stuart T Rogers wrote:

> Well I've just done some more testing.
>
> First with USB reader and new photo on card, this is detected as new and
> downloaded. I then closed digikam and re-opened and went to import from
> card again and it was recognised as already downloaded. So looks like
> USB reader does work OK.
>
> Same photo accessed by plugging in camera and using autodetected camera
> option shows photo as new, downloaded anyway and overwrote existing and
> then showed up as already downloaded. I then selected the pre-defined
> option for the camera and this same photo showed up as new. Closing and
> re-opening digikam and the photo on the camera comes up as new on both
> options.
>
> Now from what I have seen here it does look like digikam considers the
> origin of the photo (ie card reader or specific camera) as to whether or
> not the photo is new. This is I suppose OK as people are likely to have
> more than one camera, however this falls down when using a card reader
> as all cards will be considered as the same device irrespective of which
> camera they are from.
>
> So as far as I can tell from this we have a problem with digikam and
> cameras, now it also seems that gphoto is involved in this as well but I
> dont know if gphoto actually does the determination of new or if this is
> within digikam.
>
> The bottom line here is that there IS a bug and to be honest it is also
> a regression since this always used to work when I first started with
> 1.8 and 1.9 of digikam. I also feel it is quite important to resolve
> this since for me one of the big advantages was to be able to use my
> camera directly and just hit download new.
>
> Stuart
>
> On 07/29/2012 09:24 AM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>> In my view even if it uses file name and device downloaded from there is
>> still no reason why this should not work.
>>
>> I am still hoping someone who knows the internals can explain how this
>> works and whether this function is performed by digikam itself or relies
>> on some other code to detect this, that way I'll know where to open a
>> bug report.
>>
>> I will try and see if digikam remembers by creating a new photo and
>> download it via the card reader, and then see if it comes up as new or
>> not on a second try.
>>
>> I seem to remember that digikam gets it correct if you dont restart it
>> between attempts but again I'll have to test that.
>>
>> This problem is such a pain to me as my wife does not like to clear
>> photos off her memory cards unless it gets full so I have to make sure I
>> know what has been downloaded already (or sit here skipping photos
>> manually and when you have 400+ its a pain).
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> On 07/29/2012 08:32 AM, Anders Stedtlund wrote:
>>> There is probably a table having a relation between downloaded images
>>> and the device they were downloaded from. I have had problems with
>>> digikam not remember images downloaded from my Canon EOS 50d.
>>>
>>> Now I use a external card reader and don't have the problem any
>>> longer. I use digiKam 2.7.0 at the moment.
>>>
>>> /Anders
>>>
>>> 2012/7/28 Stuart T Rogers <[hidden email]>:
>>>> I can see all the photos correctly listed in the sqlite database so I
>>>> dont
>>>> know what else to look for.
>>>>
>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/28/2012 09:10 PM, Peter Albrecht wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Stuart,
>>>>>
>>>>> this bug happens to me too, every now and than. But I had no
>>>>> time to investigate this jet.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I would do to debug:
>>>>> I would try to find out, where digikams stores information
>>>>> about pictures beeing old/new. Than I would look where
>>>>> writing or reading this information fails.
>>>>>
>>>>> But since I am only a digikam user - no developer - I do not
>>>>> exactly know, where to look for. But I would first try the
>>>>> digikam SQLite Database. ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Peter
>>>>>
>>>>> On 28.07.2012 16:15, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Following my rant the other day I have done some testing
>>>>>> using both the camera and the USB card reader. I am running
>>>>>> digikam 2.7.0 with gphoto2 at 2.4.14.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All the photos on the camera were downloaded a few days ago
>>>>>> so there are no new ones to download. All photos are visible
>>>>>> in the correct folder in digikam.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My Canon SX10IS is detected OK but all photos on the card
>>>>>> are displayed as new whether I use the auto-detected option
>>>>>> or the one I had pre-defined.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So next I added my USB card reader and put the card directly
>>>>>> into it, again all the displayed photos on the card come up
>>>>>> as new.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At no time have I been able to get this working now for
>>>>>> absolutely ages.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can anyone suggest where to go from here please? I am
>>>>>> willing to try and debug this but have no idea where to start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stuart
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/23/2012 09:26 PM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am now running 2.7 and still digikam will not recognise
>>>>>>> that several
>>>>>>> of the photos on my Canon SX10IS camera are not new.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I simply do not understand why this is so hard to get to
>>>>>>> work properly,
>>>>>>> it used to work OK on 1.9 properly. The photos filenames
>>>>>>> are still the
>>>>>>> same for those already downloaded, and the meta data is
>>>>>>> there. This
>>>>>>> should not be rocket science, everything in the database
>>>>>>> is there to
>>>>>>> recognise that some of these images have already been
>>>>>>> downloaded so why
>>>>>>> on earth can digikam get it so wrong? Sorry but I cannot
>>>>>>> see any excuse
>>>>>>> not to fix this....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry for the rant but this is becoming a real nuisance
>>>>>>> and annoyance
>>>>>>> especially as it is a problem which used not to exist!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Stuart
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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