<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thank you for your suggestions, Gilles. I'll give it a try over the weekend, and report back on the results.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Best,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Dmitri</span></div><div><br></div> <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"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Dmitri Popov <dmpop9mm@yahoo.com>; 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> Friday, July 12, 2013 12:06 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Digikam-users] Import XMP in digiKam<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Hi Dmitri,<br><br>I suppose that you turn on XMP sidecar supports in digiKam/Metadata<br>setup page... At least "Reading from sidecar files" option must be<br>enabled.<br><br>If your image is already imported, force digiKam to read-metadata<br>after to change metadata settings. Go to AlbumGUI/Captions&Tags
right<br>sidebar, select you images and run "More/Read Metadata..." (button on<br>bottom of sidebar).<br><br>Note : for a huge images collection to process after to changes<br>Metadata settings, just use relevant Maintenance tool. Warnings, this<br>can take a while of course.<br><br>If it doesn't work it can be a typo rules to adjust in XMP metadata parser.<br><br>As XMP metadata managed by application are a big puzzle (XMP is not a<br>puzzle, only the way that applications use it), i suspect that rating<br>and tags imported use a different typo than current digiKam import<br>implementation.<br><br>I personalty implemented the LR wrapper in digiKam metadata parser. I<br>remember to have patched it multiple time due to a typo syntax error<br>to decode these tags from XMP.<br><br>As XMP is XML based text file, it's easy to hack.<br><br>Open sidecar file and search where tags and rating are registered in<br>XMP. Typically for LR, digiKam check these tags
:<br><br>- Xmp.lr.hierarchicalSubject<br>- Xmp.lr.HierarchicalSubject<br><br>... for keywords (note the typo !)<br><br>- Xmp.xmp.Rating<br>- Xmp.MicrosoftPhoto.Rating<br><br>... for rating (there is no LR tags dedicated)<br><br>Best<br><br>Gilles Caulier<br><br>2013/7/12 Dmitri Popov <<a ymailto="mailto:dmpop9mm@yahoo.com" href="mailto:dmpop9mm@yahoo.com">dmpop9mm@yahoo.com</a>>:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> I'm using the RawDroid app on an Android device to assign color labels and<br>> ratings to RAW files when I'm on the move. The app stores these data in<br>> Adobe Lightroom-compatible XMP sidecars. I'd like to import labels and<br>> ratings into RAW files after I've transferred them to digiKam. I tried the<br>> Import XMP feature in digiKam to import the sidecars generated by RawDroid,<br>> but neither labels nor ratings were transferred. Am I doing something wrong?<br>><br>> Thank you!<br>><br>> Best,<br>>
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