<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Erik,<br><br>Thanks for the suggestion. As far as I can tell from the exiv2 web site, Sony ARW format is only supported for read.<br><br>Jon<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Erik Felthauser <efelthauser@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> jon piesing <jon33040@yahoo.co.uk>; digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org>
<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 25 March 2013, 1:47<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Digikam-users] preserving metadata when moving a raw file from one DK to another<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv71244036"><div dir="ltr">two ideas: <div><br></div><div>1. you can enable Settings>configure digiKam>Metadata>If possible write Metadata to RAW files (experimental)</div><div>doing this may require you to dis-enable the sidecar option, and then selecting all your photos and doing an Image>Write Metadata to image</div>
<div><br></div><div>2. you could use exiv2 command line program (which is what digiKam uses behind the scenes) to copy/write the metadata from your sidecar files to the RAW files. I have not tried this, but I think something like this would work. However, please test on a backup directory first, as I have not actually tried this!!!!!!!!!):</div>
<div style="">change (cd) into your desired (testing) directory, then:</div><div style="">exiv2 -iX *.sr2</div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div><div class="yiv71244036gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="yiv71244036gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 4:59 PM, jon piesing <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jon33040@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:jon33040@yahoo.co.uk">jon33040@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv71244036gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<br>
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I've been using XMP sidecars to move raw files with captions from one DK installation to another.<br>
It mostly worked (and got better as XMP bugs were fixed) but now it's getting worse again.<br>
DK ignores the caption in the XMP and instead inserts "Sony DSC" (these are Sony raw files).<br>
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I guess it's reading a default caption Sony insert in the raw file in preference to the XMP file.<br>
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Is there any way to get DK to ignore the caption in the RAW file?<br>
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If not, is there any other way to move a RAW file with a caption from one instance of DK to another?<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Jon<br>
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