[Digikam-users] Metadata

[WB]

--- On Sun, 30/6/13, Elle Stone <l.elle.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/29/13, Boudewijn <wankelwankel at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > What I had in mind is:
> > - write metadata to database only (leave the files as
> they are)
> > - when I'm done, tick "write meta data to file"
> > - chose the option to sync the database
> > - walk away from my computer
> I'm not sure exactly what Ander's goals are, but you just
> described
> exactly what I do when I'm tagging. I go to the
> settings/configure/metadata panel and *un*check write to the
> image, or
> sidecar in my case. Then I tag. The tags are only written to
> the
> database. When I'm done tagging I re-enable writing to the
> sidecar
> files (the image files are all read-only) and sync the
> sidecars with
> the database. 

Thanks a lot! I will be doing just the same from now on, after reading the rest of the thread ;-)
(I actually use the camera-generated jpg's as sidecar file for the raw files, so that I still have a visual cue if the name of the file gets jumbled)

Best regards,

Boudewijn