[Digikam-devel] Reread metadata from image removes rating

[Johannes Wienke]

Am 23.12.2009 16:15 schrieb Marcel Wiesweg:
>> I just noticed that "Reread metadata from image" removes the rating
>> assigned to an image, even though I don't store ratings in the image
>> metadata. Is this the desired behaviour? For me it was really surprising
>> to have lost all ratings for an album because I had to reread the
>> metadata to get the updated geo-localization information from the files.
> 
> Indeed, that's a bug. I will fix it.

Thanks.

>> Moreover I just noticed that if the option to save tags in the images is
>> selected, assigning at tag correctly adds the tag to the image metadata
>> but removing it afterwards in digikam doesn't remove the tag from the
>> metadata. Is this a known issue?
> 
> Can't reproduce here. Which image format, which tag, which metadata field are 
> you looking at?

Was a plain jpeg. I can reproduce it like this;

1. Take a jpeg file without tags.
2. set one tag for that file
3. write metadata to that file
4. remove tag from file
5. write metadata to file again
6. tag is still in the exif information

Johannes

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