[Digikam-users] Writing metadata to image files

[Vlado Plaga]

Most questions have already been answered by Julien, so here comes just
some additional information.

'Write metadata to all images' basically does the same as 'Album/ Write
metadata to images' and 'Image/ Write metadata to selected images', they
only apply this to different sets of imagesm AND there is a bug in
'Write metadata to all images' (digiKam 0.10 to digiKam 1.0), which
should be fixed in following releases:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220202

Also note that all these write options only write the part of the
metadata you selected in the preferences, if I'm not mistaken. I simply
selected pretty much everything. Then you can indeed restore digiKam's
database completely from the metadata read from the images. Of course
you still need the database for quick selection of sets of images (e.g.
all five star images with a specific tag).

Regards,
Vlado