Overview

Maintenance tools are processes that are run in the background to maintain image collections and the digiKam database.

Depending on your workflow, your digiKam settings, and whether you also work on your image collections with other programs, it might be necessary to run maintenance operations from time to time to update the digiKam databases. You may also want to run maintenance tools to Find Duplicate Items in your collections, Detect and recognize faces, or automatically assign quality labels using the Image Quality Scanner. The maintenance tool can do all these things, and more. It can even run multiple tools in one go, depending on your requirements.

A Janela de Manutenção do digiKam

The list of available maintenance tools is presented in a sequential order that cannot be changed. Only the selected tools in this list will be run during the maintenance operation, and they will be run in the order they are listed. The ordering of the tools is relevant when populating the information in the database for the first time, and how these tools operate in subsequent maintenance operations.

The available maintenance tools are:

  1. Scan For New Items: scan for new albums (folders) and items in the collection directories to populate the database.

  2. Perform Database Cleaning: scan the database for entries that no longer can be associated with albums and items.

  3. Reconstruir as Miniaturas: analisa os álbuns para actualizar as miniaturas dos itens.

  4. Reconstruir as Impressões Digitais: analisa os álbuns para actualizar as impressões digitais usadas com as pesquisas por Semelhanças.

  5. Procurar Itens Duplicados: analisa os álbuns para actualizar a lista de itens duplicados com base nas impressões digitais para pesquisas por Semelhanças.

  6. Detect and Recognize Faces: perform automatic face management updates, including full reset.

  7. Auto-tags Assignment: scan items and add tags based on image content recognized by a neural network.

  8. Image Quality Scanner: perform an automatic scan of items and apply Pick Labels based on image quality.

  9. Sincronizar os Meta-Dados e a Base de Dados: efectua uma sincronização dos meta-dados dos itens com o conteúdo da base de dados ou vice-versa.