<div dir="ltr">Away from Digikam now, but:<div>- For me, the tagging by writing to the files is a background task if I remember correctly. I.e. you can continue working while digikam still writes EXIF data. I also tag large numbers of photos and I'm sure I'd have been very annoyed if the write blocked the program.</div><div>- Somewhere in the menu there's a function to "write tags to images". You could tag until you're all done, then select that and go for a quick coffee before "importing" the images.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- <br></div>Sent from my mobile device, apologies for typos<br><br></div>PGP key: <span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2016PGPKEY" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/2016PGPKEY</a></span><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:15 PM <<a href="mailto:rroth@imsa.edu">rroth@imsa.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have a workflow in which I place new images in a directory, spend some <br>
time tagging them/correcting timestamps using digikam with various <br>
information, and then I "import" them into my main collection while <br>
organizing them by date. I do this using the "import -> Add Images" <br>
feature, and then I select "Date-based sub-albums" in the settings. I <br>
choose my main collection's root, and then the images get stuffed in <br>
their appropriate locations, along with all of their metadata and tags.<br>
<br>
This worked well for me until I turned off the feature where digikam <br>
writes my tags to each image's metadata, because I realized that was <br>
causing long waits each time I applied a tag to a large number of <br>
images. After turning that feature off, my workflow broke because the <br>
import process did not move or copy the tags along with images because <br>
they only exist in the database, not in the image files.<br>
<br>
I would like to know if there is a way to replicate my previous <br>
functionality without being forced to write metadata to each file. I <br>
can't seem to find anything such feature in the batch queue manager or <br>
plugins. Does such a feature exist?<br>
<br>
-Ron<br>
<br>
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