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, Tobias Ellinghaus, Peter Budai, johannes hanika, Ulrich
       Pegelow, Stefan Schöfegger, Pascal Obry, parafin, Jérémy Rosen, Christian Tellefsen,
       Alexandre Prokoudine.

       * translators: Pascal Obry, Ger Siemerink, Michel Leblond, Tobias Ellinghaus, shlomi
       braitbart, tatica, Novy Sawai, Alexandre Prokoudine, Germano Massullo, Báthory Péter,
       Josep V. Moragues, Matjaž Jeran, Matthieu Moy, Tomasz Golinski, Ulrich Pegelow, johannes
       hanika.

       * contributors (at least 4 commits): Dan Torop, Ger Siemerink, Michel Leblond, Matthieu
       Moy, Heiko Bauke, Žilvinas Žaltiena, itinerarium, Maximilian Trescher, Wolfgang Mader,
       Andrea Volpato, Matthieu Volat, shlomi braitbart, Dominik Markiewicz, tatica.

       * RawSpeed contributors (at least 1 commit): Axel Waggershauser, Nathaniel Watson, Dan
       Torop, Marco Caimi, Martijn Courteaux, Uwe Müssel, Vasily Khoruzhick.

       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.