[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 366036] Sidecar file is not written when image is symlink to write-protected directory

[Simon Frei]

The only "rescan metadata" option I find is "read metadata from file", 
but I do not currently write any metadata to file with digiKam, I store 
tags only internally.
So the behavior is that digiKam reads and writes metadata from/to just 
one file (the original) but keeps separate database entries? If this is 
the case, that would be very inconsistent. Either Thomas' approach:
     Keep separate metadata for every file, thus using sidecar file 
along symlink
or
     Only read/write to the original and one database entry for a file 
and all symlinks pointing to it
need to be used.

On 26/07/16 07:50, via KDE Bugzilla wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366036
>
> --- Comment #12 from caulier.gilles at gmail.com ---
> You must to force digiKam to rescan metadata to resync database contents.
>
> Try buttons on the bottom of Captions/Tags sidebar tab.
>
> Other way is to use Maintenance tool.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>