[Digikam-users] How to best save images

[Micha? Smoczyk]

Martin (KDE) wrote:

>> That is generally the way I do, because of metadata - tagging is
>>  the key for me. digiKam (and exiv2) can't write metadata to Canon
>>  RAW files (CR2) which I use and I don't think this situation will
>>  change in close future. I save CR2 files in subdirectory untagged,
>>  convert them to PNG (loseless) which I tag.

> Hm, may be, in case of raw, it is possible to save the meta data not 
> only in the internal digikam database, but in an extra exif file as 
> well. Just my thoughts

As far as I know, digiKam don't recognize these kind of metadata
files automatically -- I mean I can save separately exiv / xmp /
iptc text file for given photo but it does not mean I can edit
metadata or load into or join with digiKam database in case of
corruption or something. I think this function is for archiving
purpose, and I have never used it.

It means also 3 extra files manually saved for each photo, waste of
time for my thousands of pictures. Cheers,

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