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

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> 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.

We strongly recommend to upgrade.

> 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?

It enables writing tags whenever you write metadata to an image. When you just 
added a tag, or when you do it in a batch.

> 
> 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?

Dont expect us to go through the 200 bugs fixed since then. Just update. 
Updating from beta5 doesn't change your images nor your db.

> 
> 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.