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.

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