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

[Gilles Caulier]

Martin,

In XMP metadata, do you take a look in digiKam XMP namespace, where
whole tags path are registered ?

Gilles Caulier

2011/1/29 Martin (KDE) <kde at fahrendorf.de>:
> 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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