[Digikam-users] Reading tags from XMP sidecar files

[sleepless]

I wrote metadata to xmp, deleted the metadata from picture and imported 
from xmp with very little metadata showing up under xmp tab. Exiv, 
makernote and IPTC remains empty. To get it done I had to select one 
photo and by hand to point to the xmp file. I can not find a way to do 
it by batch for all pictures. So it might be needed to use an other 
photomangement program to get the metadata back in the photo. But 
according to my experience is almost all data lost.

Rinus




Op 26-08-11 17:27, Gys van Zyl schreef:
> Hi Rinus,
>
> Thanks for the offer to help.
>
> I'm using digikam version 2.0 from Phillip's ppa on ubuntu 11.04.
>
> Writing to xmp sidecar definitely works. I can open the xmp file in a 
> text editor and see the tags and rating that I created in digikam. The 
> problem seems to be reading this information back from the xmp into 
> the digikam database.
>
> Gys
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:21 PM, sleepless <sleeplessregulus at hetnet.nl 
> <mailto:sleeplessregulus at hetnet.nl>> wrote:
>
>
>     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>  <mailto: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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