[Digikam-users] Reading tags from XMP sidecar files

[sleepless]

I think you can use exiftool to put the metadata back into your picture 
and from there digikam can read it again.

Rinus

Op 26-08-11 18:14, Gys van Zyl schreef:
> I have that option checked, yes. I'm aware of the problem that when 
> you check this option, all the "normal" exif info is temporarily 
> unavailable. For me this is OK, if only I can get digikam to read and 
> commit to the database what is in the xmp sidecar. I'm only trying to 
> read the tags that I created and ratings that I assigned. These fields 
> I can't even read with the single image read from xmp process.
>
> BTW in the Captions and Tags sidebar, right at the bottom there is a 
> "More" button that you can use to read metadata from all selected 
> images. Or rather, I think that's what it's supposed to do, as this 
> option also does not work for me.
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:04 PM, sleepless <sleeplessregulus at hetnet.nl 
> <mailto:sleeplessregulus at hetnet.nl>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto: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
>             <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>>
>                 <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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