[Digikam-users] Writing metadata to image files

[spinsheet]

Thanks, this is all quite informative. I do have some additional questions

In 'Preferences' > 'Metadata' I see 'Common Metadata Actions', which of
those choices writes the metadata to the actual image files themselves? The
only one that I see that obviously writes metadata to the files is 'Write
Metadata to RAW files (experimental)', I assume that that is not the one as
I am not dealing with RAW files and it's also experimental.

If I set this up on a network drive and write the metadata to the images,
will others be able to do searches based on tags or will they only be able
to see the tags associated with an image and not be able to actually do a
search based on those tags? Will DigiKam build a database file based on the
embedded metadata? As I do not want others to have write access to the
images, will they be able to create their own custom tags that only reside
on their machine and not in the images (I would imagine that this is true)?

Thanks.


Bugzilla from rechner at vlado-do.de wrote:
> 
> 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
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