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

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 16:10:58 GMT 2011


ok, so, there is an error in metdatahub class in digiKam core. We must take look

Gilles

2011/1/29 Martin (KDE) <kde at fahrendorf.de>:
> Am Samstag, 29. Januar 2011 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
>> Martin,
>>
>> In XMP metadata, do you take a look in digiKam XMP namespace, where
>> whole tags path are registered ?
>
> Gilles,
>
> I looked in the "Tags List" as well as in hierarchicalSubject, and
> both were not correct (differ from the data in digikam DB and digikam
> showed). After syncing metadata to file, they are correct now.
>
> Martin
>
>>
>> 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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