[Digikam-users] Why does digikam not read .xmp sidecar files (was: Import existing nested tags to digikam)

[Gilles Caulier]

This have been fixed with current 2.6.0-beta3.

Gilles Caulier

Le 9 avril 2012 23:34, Jan Köster <koester_jan at gmx.net> a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> after playing around a little bit I could find out that digikam is able
> to read in my old hierachical tagging stored in .xmp sidecar files. But
> you have to click "Image"->"Metadata"->"Import xmp" for every single
> picture.
> Digikam does not read any xmp although it is set in the settings. I know
> that reading metadata from xmp sidecar is experimental but I wondering a
> bit that these files are completely ignored.
> Did anybody successfully read metadata for xmp sidecar files? Any advice
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Am Samstag, den 07.04.2012, 00:53 +0200 schrieb Jan Köster:
>> I've just tested to import some existing albums previously managed in
>> bibble5 and tagged in a nested tag structure to digikam. All the tags
>> are stored in.xmp sidecar files with a comma as separator between tags
>> and a semicolon as separator between tag and sub-tag. Unfortunatly all
>> tags are imported to the same level ie the nesting is lost. Is there a
>> way to tell digikam to treat the semicolon as 'nesting separator' ?
>>
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