<html><head></head><body>Hi Ronald,<br><br>Just to confirm please - were you using XMP side cars<br><br><a href="https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html#sidecars-settings">https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html#sidecars-settings</a><br><br>Or which ...<br><br><a href="https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html">https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html</a><br><br>Thanks,<br>Paul<hr><a href="https://PaulANorman.info">https://PaulANorman.info</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 June 2025 2:06:11 pm NZST, loup+digikamusers@lo-cal.org 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">My usual workflow for adding photos to my collection is to import them <br>from my device into a temporary working folder, go through them and add <br>tags to them, then import from that folder into my main library. I've <br>been doing this using digikam since I started using more than a decade ago.<br><br>At some point I realized that writing the tags to the images was slowing <br>me down a lot, so I decided not to write metadata to the images and <br>instead just let it live in the database. This sped things up <br>considerably and everything worked as expected. When I would import the <br>images from my temporary working folder into my main library, the tags <br>would be imported along with the images. This has worked well for years <br>and through many versions of digikam. This is was working as recently <br>as January of 2025.<br><br>However, my most recent attempt to import images from my working folder <br>into my library resulted in zero tags being imported. In the import <br>window, I don't see any tags on the images. They are present when I <br>view the source images in my working folder, but not in the import window.<br><br>I have not made any intentional changes to my digikam configuration <br>since the last time I successfully imported my pictures.<br><br>How do I troubleshoot this?<br><br>I'm running Digikam 8.2.0 on Kubuntu 24.04, installed using apt. I am <br>not using any external tools to edit or manage the photos.<br><br><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>