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+it can take a significant amount of time for the [[automatic metadata script|tips/automatically_adding_metadata/]] to run on commit. it would be nice to have some progress, otherwise it just looks like the command is hanging.
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+here it's been processing my photos for more than three hours, and it's probably not even halfway done, according to ps... [[anarcat]]