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 Aldric Renaudin Roman Lebedev parafin Edouard Gomez

* translators: Pascal Obry Victor Forsiuk Jeronimo Pellegrini Martin Straeten Kang-Wei Hsu EdgarLux Besmir Godolja Ryo Shinozaki Serkan ÖNDER mmardegan Luca Cignoni Marko Vertainen Maurizio Paglia Marcus Gama Nicolas Auffray Báthory Péter Matjaž Jeran Matt Maguire Petr Stasiak Stephan Hoek bajdero Matteo Mardegan alex alexbora Яна Тунгушпаева

* contributors (at least 4 commits): Hanno Schwalm Victor Forsiuk Diederik ter Rahe Miloš Komarčević jandren Jeronimo Pellegrini Nicolas Auffray Martin Straeten Kang-Wei Hsu Simone Gotti Sakari Kapanen EdgarLux rawfiner Besmir Godolja cyruscook quovadit Ryo Shinozaki Philippe Weyland Ralf Brown Chris Elston Serkan ÖNDER mmardegan Luca Cignoni Apfelkraut Marcus Gama Marko Vertainen Maurizio Paglia Simon Raffeiner

* Sub-module rawspeed contributors (at least 1 commit): Roman Lebedev Miloš Komarčević Daniel Vogelbacher maruncz Alex Tutubalin Artemis Tosini Georg Lukas Georg Niedrist LibRaw LLC Marko Toplak Milos Komarcevic Pascal Obry PeterWem Simon Raffeiner Sprite luz paz squid-f ubergeek801

* 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.