Im very anxious to check out the new beta, however the compressed file seems to be corrupt, OR I am doing something wrong...
Anyway, this is the result of attempting to decompress:
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bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows.
bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.

tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
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(I tried twice....)

Thanks for the marvellous work !

[lcn]

I'm excited about the XMP side-car support, though. I think that will be a really useful feature, particularly as it adds a degree of data redundancy and makes backups easier. I lots the tags for thousands of images in DigiKam in the past and will never trust it completely again (though I have no plans to use anything else). I think side-car files might also make it less problematic when tagging and geo-locating, as the image file will not be touched and won't be automatically reloaded and re-thumbnailed, which slows things down. I often shoot RAW+JPEG (Canon CR2 RAW) and cannot write the metadata to the CR2 files, so side-car files will help a lot. Shooting this way means I have less to do in post than if I shoot only CR2, but I end up with two files with the same name and different extensions. Having only one side-car file is OK, as images with the same name represent the same scene regardless of file extension (the way I name them, anyway). However, if I were to tag the JPEG file and DigiKam updated the side-car file, would tagging the CR2 also update the same file? If the set of tags were different, would say adding two tags to the JPEG and then (accidentally, maybe) adding only one tag to the CR2 overwrite the side-car file with the single tag version of the metadata? Would tagging the JPEG and updating the side-car automatically make the CR2 file appear to have the same tags? Would I have to re-scan the metadata to update the database to make this work? Also, will there be a separate side-car file per image version, now that image versioning is supported? Different versions of an image could very well require different tags. In my usage, different versions (currently just different names) can have different crop ratios and I'll tag them as such.

One thing I noticed is that the documentation seems to be falling further and further behind the releases. There is very little information available about new features, so they are hard to discover and understand. Keyboard shortcuts for tags sounds very interesting, but where can I learn more. Often, the documentation just describes that a feature exists, but for something like side-car files, it would be important to know in detail exactly how the files are updated and synchronised with the database under various conditions (e.g., versioning, RAW+JPEG shooting, etc.). Is there any work planned on the documentation front? Is there an online copy of the 2.0 guide (or even something later than the 1.2 copy that was all I could find last week)?

I think it was clarified at the time of the last beta release that it is "face detection", not "face recognition". I'm still wondering what the point of face detection is, as I can detect faces perfectly well myself. Judging from the few screenshots with the last release, it looks like tagging people in photographs will still be much easier and more efficient the old way (i.e., look at a photo and click on a few "People" tags on the right panel, rather than going through the whole tag-hunting process separately for each detected face). Maybe face detection would be more useful if it were applied to tasks like automatic red-eye removal and the like.

I am very pleased to read that you gonna implement a "Tags Keyboard Shorcuts" feature. I just started to tag my images and this will certainly be a big help.
Great work you are doing here!
Cheers, Zed.

How to use Face Recognition ? Use DigiKam 2.0.0-beta3 from svn, but could not find how to run "Face Recognition"...

Hi.

I've read a comment on this site about concerns when it comes to write metadata to original photo files. I'm in the same boat, but I also have a suggestion that may relieve some of you digiKam users.

You can read the details at http://b.joaoubaldo.com/?p=277.

Please share any comments, suggestions you may have.

Cheers

Hello,

Is there a way to use digikam 2.0.0 beta on macosx ?

- ports for macports ?
- .dmg ?
- compile myself ???

Thanks in advance

BTW: is the scripting interface ( stscript integration) available on this beta ??