[Digikam-users] Re: Save Metadata

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Samstag, 16. Oktober 2010 schrieb Micha Neubauer:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I want to copy the meta-data from one picture to another (since I
> modified it in another program which somehow preserved not all
> tags).
> 
> 1. I can do it with the KIPI-Plug-in, but it actually needs 3 steps
> to copy all the meta- data (EXIF, IPTC & XMP). Is there a
> possibility in copying all meta-data in one step? Same refers to
> deleting meta-data; when you want to get rid of them you also have
> to delete each meta-data format by itself.
> 
> 2. I did it with the picture; all is fine. But then I "write
> meta-data to image" for some strange reason the meta-data are
> erased again...
> Anybody knows why and how I can solve this?

exiv2 is the command to use here. "exiv2 ex *.jpg" extracts all 
exif/xmp/iptc data from the jpg file into a .exv file and "exiv2 in 
*.jpg" inserts the corresponding .exv file into the jpg file. See man 
exiv2 for more details.

> 
> Thanks
> micha
> Digikam 1.4 under Kubuntu 10.10

Martin