[Digikam-users] Reading tags from XMP sidecar files

[sleepless]

Things might have been improved. I am going to do a test. Which version 
of digikam or you using?

Rinus
> >  XMP sidecar management is not yet fully complete. It's possible that
> >  my implementation do not support it or a bug appear.
> >
> >  Look like my message in relevant entry is clear :
> >
> >  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220545#c67
> >
> >  Reading support must be fine, Writing support not yet.
> >
> >  Gilles Caulier
> >
> >  2011/5/10 sleepless<sleeplessregulus at hetnet.nl>:
>> >>  If I do this:
>> >>
>> >>  Settings ->   Configure Digikam ->   Metadata ->   metadata writing mode ->
>> >>  Write to XMP sidecar only
>> >>
>> >>  and than:
>> >>
>> >>  Tools ->   write metadata to all images
>> >>
>> >>  Why do I not see consequently any XMP files alongside the image files?
>> >>
>> >>  Or: How do I get my metadata in XMP files?






Op 26-08-11 16:54, Gys van Zyl schreef:
> Hi,
>
> I have folders where digikam wrote tags to xmp sidecar files for all 
> image files. I subsequently created a new database and now I want to 
> add these folders to digikam as a collection, with the expectation 
> that the tags will be read from the sidecar files. However, this does 
> not happen. Even when I use Image>Metadata>Import XMP... for a 
> specific image, the tags are not read.
>
> Is there a way to get the tags from the sidecar files into the digikam 
> database?
>
> Gys
>
>
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