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DARKTABLE-GENERATE-CACHE(1) darktable DARKTABLE-GENERATE-CACHE(1)

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.

Gives usage information and terminates.
Gives copyright and version information and terminates.
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.
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.
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 Aldric Renaudin Aurélien PIERRE parafin Roman Lebedev

* translators: Pascal Obry Jeronimo Pellegrini Victor Forsiuk Martin Straeten Ryo Shinozaki EdgarLux Serkan ÖNDER Stephan Hoek Petr Stasiak Matt Maguire Matjaž Jeran Nicolas Auffray Яна Тунгушпаева cotacot mmardegan Báthory Péter Hui Xie Jan Friedrich Marko Vertainen Matteo Mardegan MatteoVita shlomi braitbart 篠崎亮 Ryo Shinozaki

* contributors (at least 4 commits): Hanno Schwalm Philippe Weyland Victor Forsiuk Nicolas Auffray Diederik ter Rahe Jeronimo Pellegrini Miloš Komarčević Chris Elston Martin Straeten Ryo Shinozaki Dan Torop EdgarLux Sakari Kapanen HansBull Serkan ÖNDER Ralf Brown Stephan Hoek Petr Stasiak rawfiner solarer Philipp Lutz luz paz Apfelkraut Matt Maguire quovadit

* Sub-module rawspeed contributors (at least 1 commit): Roman Lebedev

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

And all those of you that made previous releases possible

This man page was written by Ulrich Pegelow <ulrich.pegelow@tongareva.de> as part of the usermanual. It was turned into a man page by Tobias Ellinghaus <me@houz.org>.

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.

2017-01-20 darktable 2.3