[Digikam-users] lost all tags on canon raw images

[Vlado Plaga]

Am Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:13:42 -0900
schrieb Jim Dory <james at dorydesign.com>:

> However, back when I was keeping the database on the
> NFS shares there were many times I had to delete it and let it rebuild so I
> could again view the images. The jpeg tags were always back - I just don't
> know if my raw image tags were also there or perhaps I hadn't tagged them
> yet. So I guess I had a false sense of security - thinking the tags were
> somewhere in the image rather than database.

Maybe you want to vote for "digiKam could warn when writing metadata to
pictures fails"?
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220204

I think it is a significant problem if you chose "write metadata to
pictures", but for some reason digiKam can only store the information
in its database.

I'm sorry for you if you lost a lot of tags.

> I run Gentoo's cutting edge (their unstable branch) so am probably asking
> for trouble.

In any case I recommend making backups from time to time. I use rsync
with snapshots, but not with cron (yet). Similar to this solution:
http://www.rsnapshot.org/

Vlado