digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 beta1 is out...

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

The digiKam development team is happy to release
new digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 beta1.

For more details, see announcement on digikam.org:

http://www.digikam.org/node/643

This version is only for testing purpose. Do not use yet in production.

Thanks in advance for your reports.

Gilles Caulier
digiKam project
http://www.digikam.org

Disappearing RAW files (Update)

It now appears that anytime that I try to edit a raw file in Dk, after
> the save process the raw file visually disappears from the Dk system
and
> the system file manager shows only a place-holder without an image. I
> have now 'lost' several files due to this problem.
> 
> I notice that the 'save' process did appear to take an exceptionally
> long time ... not sure what that has to do with anything! Incidentally
> the save process did *not* complete the save .. there was no output.
> 
> Fortunately I do have everything backed-up but strangely pulling a
> backed-up version into the system file manager does not solve the
> problem. The file is still invisible to Dk and the replaced file still
> has no inherent image.
> 
> At this point I must simply stop using Dk until a solution is found.
> 
> David

start dk and scan collection for faces from command line?

Is there any way to start digikam from the command line and have it go 
straight to scanning my album collection for faces?

Since dk crashes during scanning for faces I have been running it from 
the command line in a loop (while true; do digikam; done) so that I 
don't have to wait for dk to start up again after each crash, but I do 
have to manually start the scan again each time. If I could 
automatically have it go into scanning mode I could just leave it 
running until it works its way through my collection.

Or fixing the bug would do 

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'Lost ' Raw Thumbnail

Something unusual .. and rather alarming!
After editing an image in Digikam the edited png file correctly appeared
in the album but the raw thumbnail/placeholder was not to be found.
Tried ' rebuilding album thumbnails' this did not help. F5 also.

Was able to find and open the raw in darktable, rawstudio and gthumb,
all correctly.

In the file browser the file is indicated but only as a unfilled
rectangle (no thumbnail?).

I suspect that the thumbnail has been trashed ... any ideas out there?

digikam 2.5.0 .. kde 4.7.4 ... Mint 12

Search on IPTC metadata

Dear digikam users,

There is the possibility to make searches on IPTC metadata (like for example the
city or sublocation) in digikam as far as I know, but I can't find this feature
in the GUI.
Could anyone tell me how to carry out searches on IPTC metadata?

Kind regards,
Julia

cannot search albums

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batch processing convert to b&w produces black images

Hi,

I observed something strange: I wanted to use the batch processor to
convert a few jpg images to black and white, but the result it
produced was entirely black. When converting the images in the editor,
everything is fine. Is that a known problem, or am I doing something
wrong? Can anyone reproduce this? I'm using 1.5 on Kubuntu, 64 bit.

Regards
Martin

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Moving collection

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EXPORT HTML - use digikam thumbnail database

Hi,

Is it possible to generate HTML gallery without using thumbnail 
generation but using existing thumbnail of digikam database or dedicated 
directory containing already generated thumbnails?

Thanks

moving raw pictures from digikam 2.5.0 on laptop to desktop

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Create albums by date uses the wrong date

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