[Digikam-users] Re: Save metadata to files not working

[Ben Staude]

Am Donnerstag 28 Oktober 2010 schrieb Martin (KDE):
> Am Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2010 schrieb Ben Staude:
> > Am Montag 25 Oktober 2010 schrieb Martin (KDE):
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > It is a feature. You can enable timestamp update in the
> > > configuration dialogue (metadata) and there in the first tab
> > > (Verhalten in german).
> > 
> > Thanks for the hint - I found the option and, while thinking about
> > whether I really want the timestamp updated, finally decided that
> > it might be best to not save metadata to the image files at all:)
> > That's the way my old tool did it and I am fine with it (as long as
> > the sqlite file is backed up...). Or is it "best practice" to save
> > it into the image files?
> 
> This depends. If you store the meta data to the file, you can see these
> data with other tools as well. I for my point do this. Most of the
> time I use gimp to edit pictures. If the exif data are in the file,
> they survive editing. Without storing to file I had some meta data loss
> after editing with gimp.

That's a good point. I usually edit files with the gimp and save them as a 
copy. digiKam can not guess that I'd like to have the same metadata (tags, 
caption) for the new file. I'm afraid there's no "copy metadata from ...", is 
there? There is "copy metadata to clipboard" in the right sidebar, but no 
according "paste metadata from clipboard":(

> > > > Still confused by the warning/error message, I found out that
> > > > once I edit/modify and save one image in the album (F4),
> > > > digiKam somehow does/gets a filesystem update and doesn't
> > > > print the warning/error message any more, even when metadata
> > > > of another image in the album is changed!?
> > 
> > The warning/error message is still present. Although I do not
> > observe any real problem with it, I'm still a bit concerned about
> > it. Any suggestions, or has this maybe been fixed since digiKam
> > 1.2.0? This is the message again:
> > Digikam::CollectionScanner::scanAlbum: Folder does not exist or is
> > not readable:  "/foo/bar.jpg". Note it's complaining about the
> > *folder*, but printing the path to a single *file*.
> 
> I never had a warning like this. But version 1.2 is a little outdated.
> May be updating to current version gets rid of this error. But maybe
> you have added the file "/foo/bar.jpg" as folder to your collection?

I'm not aware of having added any file as a folder... The message appears for 
"any" file, so I don't think this is the reason.
digiKam 1.2.0 came with my kubuntu 10.04; probably the best way to get an up-
to-date version would be to uninstall the dist packages and compile from some 
tgz. I'm not sure if I want to go into that, as I'm afraid of problems with 
the next dist upgrade...

Ben