[Digikam-users] Slideshow writes metadata to file - why?

[Gilles Caulier]

During a slideshow, no file must be touch. Only metadata are read,
excepted if you apply rating change of image and turn on digiKam
metadata settings to write digiKam info to image...

Gilles Caulier

2012/7/21 Anders Kamf <digikam at kamf.se>:
> Hi!
>
> First: thanks for a great program!
>
> I have a question about metadata embedded in files. Whenever showing a
> picture in the slideshow, digiKam edit the metadata of the picture. It
> adds information to the file:
>
> Processing Software             : digiKam-2.5.0
> Software                        : digiKam-2.5.0
> Creator Tool                    : digiKam-2.5.0
> Originating Program             : digiKam
>
> I like digiKam to save image rating etc. to metadata embedded in
> files, but that is when I change i.e. the rating. I don’t want it to
> change a file when simply viewing it in the slideshow.
>
> Anybody know why digiKam does this?
> Is it possible to turn off? (The settings are quite detailed about
> which metadata to save embedded in the files, but as far as I can see
> it doesn’t say anything about this specific behavior.)
>
> Regards
> Anders
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