[Digikam-users] Re: digiKam ate my tags: bug, feature, or user-error?

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Samstag, 29. Januar 2011 schrieb Andrew Goodbody:
> On 26/01/11 21:46, Elle Stone wrote:
> > So - feature? bug? borked installation? user error? (in which
> > case please, please tell me the right way to apply new tags)
> > 
> > Elle
> 
> I just came across this behaviour in 1.8.0 (or close check out from
> SVN) and I consider it to be a bug, so go ahead and raise a
> report. Looking at my photos I would say that this is quite a long
> standing bug as it seems to have affected photos I tagged with
> 1.3.0 or possibly an earlier version, I'm not sure which.
> 
> In summary if you select a number of photos that have differing
> sets of tags already applied and add a new tag, with metadata
> written out to images by default, then only tags that are common
> to all photos selected will be written out to the photos, tags not
> in common will be removed. All tags are present, original and new
> as expected, in the database.

I just tested this with my photos (digikam 1.7) and I have the same 
behaviour. Tags not set for all selected photos are removed from XMP 
data embedded in the files. Database is OK. I just synced all metadata 
from DB to files (takes some time, but you never know).

Martin

> 
> Andrew
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