[Digikam-users] From F-Spot to digiKam....

[Gilles Caulier]

Gerhard

digikam 0.9.x support IPTC, not XMP. I'm not sure, but i think than
F-spot support only XMP. If yes, this is why digiKam do not import
f-spot tags in database.

Best

Gilles Caulier

2008/8/13 Gerhard Kulzer <gerhardkgmx at gmail.com>:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2008 17:27:44 Marcin Kasperski wrote:
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>> I managed to move my photos (including tags) from F-Spot to digiKam.
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>> It required some scripting, so maybe it will be of some interest
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>> to somebody:
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>>
>> http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/12-Moving-images-from-F-Spot-to-digiKam.ht
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>>ml
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>>
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>> I am also curious, why digiKam failed to find tags embedded in images
>
>> (for example Flickr extracted them properly). Is it a program bug, my
>
>> mistake, or something else?
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>>
>
>> PS With all those people moving back and forth between Gnome and KDE,
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>> maybe it could make sense to embed similar procedure (read F-Spot
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>> database and extract the data from there) in digiKam?
>
> I import a lot of photos from Photoshop and Aperture with no problems
> importing the metadata into digiKam (it is rather annoying sometimes as it
> creates tag trees all over the show, and I have to integrate/delete them
> afterwards).
>
> So I wonder why you can't read your F-spot metadata. Can you give it a try
> and run exiv2 on the original images from F-spot?
>
> $ exiv2 -pi *.jpg (or whatever format your images have)
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> If you see IPTC data then digiKam will see them too. Otherwise I'd guess
> that there is a problem with the metadata of the images.
>
> Gerhard
>
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