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

[Adam]

I think, it is a problem with Canon Raw, or at least I know it does not
work with Canon. It is the plugin that Digikam used to write the metat
data, not really a digikam issue. 

I setup a backup that runs
every 4 hours just copies the database to other folders. I almost lost
all mine when I did an upgrade recently, but the backups saved me. Good
luck

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>From: Jim Dory <james at dorydesign.com>
>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
>Sent: Sun, February 21, 2010 4:18:11 PM
>Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] lost all tags on canon raw images
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>It seems that on my computer at least, raw metadata in Digikam is broken. I will avoid tagging until I get that figured out - I'll see if I can work it out in another program for tags/keywords in the meantime.
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>Does raw tags/keywords work for others in Digikam? Can people use the Image/Metadata/Edit IPTC for instance? On mine, I cannot navigate or click on anything in that window on a raw image whereas jpegs are fine.
>
>>cheers, Jim
>
>
>On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Vlado Plaga <rechner at vlado-do.de> wrote:
>
>>>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
>>
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