[Digikam-users] How to use versioning?

[Andreas Mair]

Hello Marcel,

2012/6/19 Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>:
>
>
>> digiKam settings: Metadata / Behavior / Reading and Writing Metadata
>> If I enable "Write to sidecar files" and set this option to anything
>> but "Write to XMP sidecar for read-only image only" versioning
>> *doesn't* work (even if image is read-only).
>> I mean:
>> - on that page I've only enabled "Read from sidecar files" and nothing
>> else => versioning works (history OK)
>> - now enable "Wright to sidecar files" and set it to "Write to XMP
>> sidecar for read-only image only" => versioning still works
>> - now set "Wright to sidecar files" to "Write to sidecar only" or
>> "Write to image and XMP Sidecar" => versionimng *not* works
>
> Versioning involves information stored in image metadata, which may explain
> that a bug in metadata writing can affect versioning.
>
> Are you sure that you run libkexiv2 newer than April? I strongly recommend not
> to use sidecars with any older version.

I'm using kde-base/libkexiv2-4.8.3 and media-gfx/digikam-2.6.0 on a
Gentoo Linux box.
Is this new enough?

Best regards,
Andreas

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