Digikam 8.2.0 continuously crashes on my Mac. Whether I am applying a tag or changing the capture date, the software freezes and ultimately crashes. Sometimes, the application stops responding when it’s launching.
I’d love to use Digikam to organize my photo library, but the software feels unusable right now. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a fix to make it run smoothly?
It would be nice if you could produce some debug information. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to get that information on Apple computers.
But even then, I’m not sure there are developers for digikam using an M1 Mac. The fee demanded by Apple to be able to sign programs for those machines is rather discouraging for non-paid volunteers. Also, Apple has discouraged certain technologies that were commonly used on other operating systems, meaning that programs using those technologies would have to be specially adapted for Macs (or use stopgaps that might disappear in the future).
tl;dr: Apple is not friendly towards FOSS software…
It crashes when creating presumably thumbnails in the QImageReader (digikam QImage loader). This will load special files, such as BMP, GIF, AVI, JXL etc.) try to isolate the image file to make it available to us.
