DARKTABLE-GENERATE-CACHE

Section: darktable (1)
Updated: 2017-01-20
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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.

AUTHORS

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

* developers: Pascal Obry Aurélien PIERRE Aldric Renaudin parafin Roman Lebedev Tobias Ellinghaus

* translators: Jeronimo Pellegrini Pascal Obry EdgarLux Heiko Bauke Martin Straeten Timur Davletshin Matjaž Jeran thisnamewasnottaken vertama Arch Ont Bernhard Báthory Péter Matteo Mardegan Michel Leblond Nicolas Auffray jpellegrini Alejandro Criado-Pérez Cyril Richard Danilo Bargen Denny Biasiolli Diederik ter Rahe Jakub Filipowicz Marko Vertainen Miroslav Fikar criadoperez mrleemon shlomi braitbart Łukasz Karcz

* contributors (at least 4 commits): ralfbrown Hubert Kowalski Diederik ter Rahe Jeronimo Pellegrini Dan Torop Philippe Weyland Chris.Elston hanno@schwalm-bremen.de Heiko Bauke EdgarLux Mark-64 Nicolas Auffray Harold le Clément de Saint-Marcq rawfiner Bill Ferguson David-Tillmann Schaefer Miloš Komarčević Ralf Brown darkelectron Matt Maguire Martin Straeten Alexis Mousset dterrahe Andreas Schneider Hanno Schwalm Timur Davletshin Chris Elston Philipp Lutz matt-maguire

* Sub-module rawspeed contributors (at least 1 commit): Roman Lebedev Bill Ferguson Josef Raschen Matt Maguire Philipp Normann Zanhard frantic1048 parafin ponkotuy

* Sub-module OpenCL contributors (at least 1 commit):

* Sub-module libxcf contributors (at least 1 commit):

* Sub-module whereami contributors (at least 1 commit):

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

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.