<html><head></head><body>Hi,<br><br>Does any of this have any effect on working with sidecars under 8.0 please?<br><br>Or should we all just use 8.1.0?<br><br>Paul<hr><a href="https://PaulANorman.info">https://PaulANorman.info</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 June 2023 6:58:41 am NZST, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">In order to activate the writing of metadata in HEIF files, writing with <br>ExifTool must be activated in the digiKam settings under metadata. Due to a <br>bug, I only recommend the setting from digiKam-8.1.0.<br><br>A pre-release version can be downloaded here:<br><br><a href="https://files.kde.org/digikam/">https://files.kde.org/digikam/</a><br><br>Maik<br><br>Am Sonntag, 4. Juni 2023, 19:30:20 CEST schrieb Bob Birenbaum:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello,<br><br>I use Digikam for basic photo cataloging. Typically all I do is add<br>captions to images and videos, and sometimes change the date/time tag, as<br>shown here.<br><br>[cid:ae42be1f-9b88-48d4-b431-7eb329f8ee5b]<br>In the past, when I've done this, I could also go into the file on Windows<br>10, look at properties, and see the metadata reflected there. The<br>"caption" I entered on Digikam would be reflected in the "Title" and<br>"Subject" fields in Windows. An example is shown below.<br><br>[cid:7f637d50-181e-47aa-854f-ceeca4804a8f]<br><br>Today I was going through this process with some new files, and it isn't<br>working as it used to. So, what changed? It seems that this process works<br>OK for .jpg files, but not for HEIC files.<br><br>So, the question is, how can I configure Digikam to write the metadata that<br>I change to HEIC files?<br><br>Thank you.<br></blockquote><br><br><br><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>