[Digikam-users] Trapped in digiKam for KDE on windows beta5

[Peter Shute]

I'm still running 1.0.0 beta5.  Before I make any serious attempts to upgrade it, I'd like to write all the tags to the image files, just in case I mess it all up and have to start from scratch.

I tried the various commands to write metadata to files, but they didn't appear to do anything.  They ran without complaint, but I could find no tags in any images that should have them.  I ended up enabling the option Settings/Configure/Metadata/Save image tags, then they began to function. Is that what that option is supposed to do?  I had assumed it enabled the immediate writing of tags as they were set or altered, not that it would enable/disable ALL writing of metadata.  Is this how it functions in the final release?

Anyway, now that it was working, I tried the Tools/Write metadata to all images comnmand.  This ground to a halt after a while, at 31% done.  Not a crash, just sitting there doing nothing.    I've tried aborting and restarting, and it always stops after a while.  Is this a known bug that has been fixed since beta5?

So now I'm stuck.  I don't want to experiment with upgrades till I've saved the tags, but I can't save them.