<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Hello everyone,<br><br>I have managed my photo collection with Apple Aperture for the last 4 years, and now would like to switch to Digikam, under Gentoo Linux.<br>My collection consists of CR2-raw-files as well as jpegs. Most pictures are rated and tagged with keywords.<br><br>As I dont want to touch the raws, I exported my entire collection with xmp-sidecar files.<br><br>I installed digikam, and, after reading that a couple of problems with xmp-sidecar files were fixed in 2.6.0 switche<span class="tab"></span>d to that version (which is still in the unstable branch in gentoo).<br>My component information now looks like this:<br><br>--------------------------------------------------<br>digiKam version 2.6.0<br>Exiv2 kann in JP2 speichern: Ja<br>Exiv2 kann in JPEG speichern: Ja<br>Exiv2 kann in PGF speichern: Ja<br>Exiv2 kann in
PNG speichern: Ja<br>Exiv2 kann in TIFF speichern: Ja<br>Exiv2 unterstützt XMP-Metadaten: Ja<br>LibCImg: 130<br>LibClapack: Externe gemeinsame Bibliothek<br>LibExiv2: 0.21.1<br>LibJPEG: 80<br>LibJasper: 1.900.1<br>LibKDE: 4.8.3 (4.8.3)<br>LibKExiv2: 2.1.0<br>LibKGeoMap: 2.0.0<br>LibKdcraw: 2.0.1<br>LibLCMS: 119<br>LibLensFun: Externe gemeinsame Bibliothek<br>LibLqr: Interne Bibliothek<br>LibPGF: 6.11.32 - Externe gemeinsame Bibliothek<br>LibPNG: 1.5.10<br>LibQt: 4.8.1<br>LibRaw: 0.14.4<br>LibTIFF: LIBTIFF, Version 4.0.1 Copyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam Leffler Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.<br>Marble-Funktion: 0.13.0 (stable release)<br>Parallelisiertes Entfernen von Mosaikmustern: Ja<br>Datenbanktreiber: QSQLITE<br>LibGphoto2: 2.4.12<br>LibKface: 2.0.0<br>LibKipi: 1.3.0<br>LibOpenCV: 2.3.1<br>Libface: 0.2<br>--------------------------------------------------<br><br>I enabled in the Metadata-options:<br>*Write all information into
metadata<br>*Read from sidecar files<br>*Write to sidecar files<br>*Write only to xmp-sidecar files<br>*do NOT write to Raw files<br><br>With this setup, when I added the folder to digikam, no xmp-metadata was read (exif worked flawlessly).<br>Even when selecting a single photo, and then going to Picture->Metadata->Import XMP, nothing is imported.<br>Interestingly, when doing the above with jpegs, simply nothing happens.<br>For the CR2s, I get an error message, that no metadata was read for that file.<br><br>This leads to my questions: <br>1.) The bugfixes concerning xmp-sidecar were implemnted throug a new version of libkexiv2, at least thats how I understood it. So simply installing digikam 2.6.0 does not neccesarily fix the problem. Do I have the correct component versions or is something wrong here?<br> <br>2.) The name of a picture, sidecar combinations are for example IMG_9015.crc IMG_9015.XMP. Is this correct?<br><br>3.) An
example sidecar file has the following format:<br>--------------------------------------------------<br><?xpacket begin='' id=''?><br><x:xmpmeta xmlns:x='adobe:ns:meta/' x:xmptk='XMP toolkit 2.9-9, framework 1.6'><br><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#' xmlns:iX='http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/'><br><rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:Iptc4xmpCore='http://iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/xmlns/'><br></rdf:Description><br><rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:photoshop='http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/'><br></rdf:Description><br><rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'><br> <dc:subject><rdf:Bag><br> <rdf:li>Nora</rdf:li><br> <rdf:li>Tanja</rdf:li><br>
<rdf:li>Nora</rdf:li><br> <rdf:li>Tanja</rdf:li><br> </rdf:Bag></dc:subject><br></rdf:Description><br><rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:photomechanic='http://ns.camerabits.com/photomechanic/1.0/'><br></rdf:Description><br><rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:xap='http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/'><br> <xap:Rating>0</xap:Rating><br></rdf:Description><br></rdf:RDF><br></x:xmpmeta><br><?xpacket end='w'?><br>--------------------------------------------------<br><br>Is this format correct or could there be a problem?<br><br>4.) Am I missing something and the problem is somewhere else? What else could lead to the described behaviour and how could I fix it?<br><br>Thank you all very much in advance. I am really keen to fully use digikam, I just dont want to lose all the metadata I put into the
pictures, that really took a lot of time :-/<br><br>Greetings<br>Tobi<br><br></div></body></html>