[Digikam-users] Exporting Tags

[Dotan Cohen]

On 22/04/2008, Viewman <Viewman at safe-mail.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I really like digikam as it enables me to properly organize my photos. Yet there
>  is one remaining problem I could not solve in my workflow yet. My images are
>  stored on an external RAID System. New images are stored on my notebook in a "to
>  be sorted" folder. Regretfully I did not find a way yet to export the tag list
>  stored on the RAID in the image database to the laptop so I can use the same
>  tags to tag the photos on the laptop without attaching the RAID unit (for
>  example during travels). Do you have a hint? Or a workaround?

Just an untested workaround:
1) Configure Digikam to save tags to IPTC data: Settings -> Metadata
-> IPTC Actions -> [X] Save image tags as "Keywords" tag
2) Create a small image and tag it will all your tags.
3) Album -> Sync Pictures Metadata
4) Move the image to your laptop.
5) ???
6) Profit!!!

Dotan Cohen

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