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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Maik. Just curious. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems apps change raw file date fields depending on modifications & last access. The blocks are already there and it is just the values that are changing. So, in a similar fashion,
is really that dangerous to change to contents of other date fields, particularly date created (or whatever variation)? Aside from my own interest, would others (rhetorically asking) have a similar interest? In the change date/time feature could there be a
toggle to include raw files? </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:metzpinguin@gmail.com">Maik Qualmann</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Saturday, October 15, 2022 12:45 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [digiKam-users] Updating raw file dates</p>
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<p style="margin:0in">Wait for digiKam-8.0.0, here it will be possible to enable ExifTool to write metadata.</p>
<p style="margin:0in">It is safer to edit RAW files with ExifTool.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in">If you are keen to experiment and you make a backup of the database and your images,</p>
<p style="margin:0in">you can download an automatically created Windows digiKam-8.0.0 version here:</p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><a href="https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Windows%2064-bit/job/Digikam_Nightly_win64/">https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Windows%2064-bit/job/Digikam_Nightly_win64/</a> (*.exe file)</p>
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<p style="margin:0in">You have to do without HEIF support at the moment.</p>
<p style="margin:0in">Select ExifTool in the setup in the digiKam program directory under /bin.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in">Maik</p>
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<p style="margin:0in">Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2022, 20:30:23 CEST schrieb Alan H:</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> I have a large collection of digitized slides and photos. Perhaps I should</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> have thought of changing the camera’s date to the date the photo was taken,</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> but I didn’t. I have been using exiftool to change the dates for both jpg</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> and raw photos with no ill effects (after 1000s) from editing a raw file’s</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> date metadata.</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> </p>
<p style="margin:0in">> The work flow would be so much faster and convenient if I could do</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> everything (captions, ratings, etc as well as dates) in digicam. I still</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> have 1000s of photos to go. My experience though is that digicam will not</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> update the raw file’s date metadata. It only writes it to a sidecar xmp.</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> </p>
<p style="margin:0in">> In the configuration settings there is a check box for writing to raw files</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> (“dangerous” it says). If I am only changing the value of a metadata</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> block/field that is already present, could I just check that for when dates</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> are being edited and then change it back for everything else? Does “Exiv2</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> library” work the same as exiftool for which I have never had a problem?</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> Digikam 7.6.0, Windows 10. Thanks. Alan</p>
<p style="margin:0in">> </p>
<p style="margin:0in">> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows</p>
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