[Digikam-users] migrating images from 0.8 (IPTC)

[Caulier Gilles]

Le lundi 15 janvier 2007 23:01, Harald Friessnegger a écrit :
> i updated from 0.8.2 to 0.9.0 the last days.
> digikam really is a fantastic piece of software!
>
>
> would be great to have all the old comments and ratings etc in ipct too.
>
> currently you can only get your data into ipct by editing some of your
> existing metadata.
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/2006-December/002857.html
> (which would mean touching every existing picture)
>
> i (naivly) tried out "album | refresh" which seemed a good guess for me,
> but this didn't update the metadata.
>
> are there plans for a plugin that can write existing db-data to exif and
> ipct (for mirgration content from digikam < 0.9) and the other way round
> for importing images of other apps into digikam?

yes. there is a file in B.K.O. A new batch tool (coded in digiKAm core, not 
like a plugin) is planed. Look here :

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130017

Regards

Gilles Caulier