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: Roman Lebedev, Ulrich Pegelow, Tobias Ellinghaus, Pedro Côrte-Real, Pascal Obry, johannes hanika, Aldric Renaudin, parafin, Jérémy Rosen, Pascal de Bruijn, Edouard Gomez, Alexandre Prokoudine, Christian Tellefsen. * translators: Pascal Obry, Ger Siemerink, Tobias Ellinghaus, shlomi braitbart, Michel Leblond, Richard Levitte, Thomas Pryds, tatica, Josep V. Moragues, Báthory Péter, Matjaž Jeran, Novy Sawai, Alexandre Prokoudine, Pascal de Bruijn, Alberto Caso, Dušan Kazik, Germano Massullo, Matthieu Moy, Milan Knížek, Nazarii Vitak, Tomasz Golinski, johannes hanika. * contributors (at least 5 commits): Stefan Schöfegger, Ger Siemerink, Dan Torop, Michel Leblond, Matthieu Volat, shlomi braitbart, Asma, Bernd Steinhauser, tatica, Richard Levitte, Maurizio Paglia, Matthieu Moy, Thomas Pryds, Chris Hodapp, Alexander V. Smal, Josep V. Moragues. 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) 2009-2015 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.