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darktable-generate-cache - update darktable's thumbnail cache

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NAME

darktable−generate−cache − update darktable's thumbnail cache

SYNOPSIS

darktable−generate−cache [−h, −−help; −−version] [−m, −−max−mip <0−7>] [−−core <darktable options>]

DESCRIPTION

darktable is a digital photography workflow application for Linux, Mac OS X and several other Unices. It's described further in darktable(1).

darktable−generate−cache updates darktable's thumbnail cache. You can start this program to generate all missing thumbnails in the background when your computer is idle.

OPTIONS

All parameters are optional. If started without parameters darktable−generate−cache uses reasonable defaults.
−h, −−help

Gives usage information and terminates.

−−version

Gives copyright and version information and terminates.

−−min−mip <0−7>
−m, −−max−mip <0−7>

darktable can handle and store thumbnails with up to eight different resolution steps for each image. These parameters define which maximum resolution should be generated and default to a range of 0−2. There is normally no need to generate all possible resolutions here; missing ones will be automatically generated by darktable the moment they are needed. When asked to generate multiple resolutions at once, the lower−resolution images are quickly downsampled from the highest−resolution image.

−−min−imgid <N>
−−max−imgid <N>

Specifies the range of internal image IDs from the database to work on. If no range is given, darktable−generate−cache will process all images from the entire collection.

−−core <darktable options>

All command line parameters following −−core are passed to the darktable core and handled as standard parameters. See darktable(1) for a detailed description of the options.

SEE ALSO

darktable(1)

AUTHORS

The principal developer of darktable is Johannes Hanika. The (hopefully) complete list of contributors to the project is:

* Developers: Pascal Obry Victor Forsiuk Hanno Schwalm Mario Zimmermann Ralf Brown Aldric Renaudin Roman Lebedev Diederik ter Rahe Jeronimo Pellegrini Martin Straeten MiloÅ¡ KomarÄeviÄ Bill Ferguson EdgarLux esq4 Kang-Wei Hsu Kofa Elia Devito Matjaž Jeran Å arÅ«nas Burdulis

* Translators: Pascal Obry Victor Forsiuk Jeronimo Pellegrini Martin Straeten EdgarLux Kang-Wei Hsu Elia Devito Matjaž Jeran Jan Å mucr Ryo Shinozaki Marko Vertainen Tianhao Chai Besmir Godolja Báthory Péter Johan Schiff Patrick Fournier Paul Kocialkowski Reinder Mulder Wojciech Nagrodzki osiixy Яна ТÑнгÑÑпаева

* Sub-module rawspeed contributors (at least 1 commit): Roman Lebedev MiloÅ¡ KomarÄeviÄ Kolton Yager Aurélien PIERRE Louie Lu Victor Forsiuk Andreas Stiller Georg Lukas Hon1nbo

* Sub-module integration contributors (at least 1 commit): Pascal Obry ralfbrown

* Sub-module lua-scripts contributors (at least 1 commit): Krzysztof Kotowicz wpferguson Bill Ferguson Georg Lutz Martin Straeten MiloÅ¡ KomarÄeviÄ Nahuel José Yuri van der Burg fjb2020

And all those of you that made previous releases possible

This man page was written by Ulrich Pegelow <[email protected]> as part of the usermanual. It was turned into a man page by Tobias Ellinghaus <[email protected]>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009−2017 by Authors.

darktable is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL v3 or (at your option) any later version.


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