[Digikam-users] Reading tags from XMP sidecar files

[sleepless]

Op 26-08-11 17:58, Photonoxx schreef:
> Have you check the option to read metadata from XMP side car files in 
> the "Metadata tab" of Digikam settings ?
>
> One bad thing when I try this option, is Metadatas seems to be read 
> from XMP side car file, but, as EXIF are not wrote in these files, the 
> Exif orientation are not read, and a lot of picture doesn't have the 
> right orientation, but metadata seems to be read from XMP file.
>
>
With that option set the results are here even worse than without.

Rinus
>
> Le Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:27:01 +0200, Gys van Zyl <gysvanzyl at gmail.com> 
> a écrit:
>
>> 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>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> <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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