[Digikam-users] preserving metadata when moving a raw file from one DK to another

[jon piesing]

Erik,

Thanks for the suggestion. As far as I can tell from the exiv2 web site, Sony ARW format is only supported for read.

Jon





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> From: Erik Felthauser <efelthauser at gmail.com>
>To: jon piesing <jon33040 at yahoo.co.uk>; digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org> 
>Sent: Monday, 25 March 2013, 1:47
>Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] preserving metadata when moving a raw file from one DK to another
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>two ideas: 
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>1. you can enable Settings>configure digiKam>Metadata>If possible write Metadata to RAW files (experimental)
>doing this may require you to dis-enable the sidecar option, and then selecting all your photos and doing an Image>Write Metadata to image
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>2. you could use exiv2 command line program (which is what digiKam uses behind the scenes) to copy/write the metadata from your sidecar files to the RAW files. I have not tried this, but I think something like this would work. However, please test on a backup directory first, as I have not actually tried this!!!!!!!!!):
>change (cd) into your desired (testing) directory, then:
>exiv2 -iX *.sr2
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>On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 4:59 PM, jon piesing <jon33040 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>Hi,
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>>I've been using XMP sidecars to move raw files with captions from one DK installation to another.
>>It mostly worked (and got better as XMP bugs were fixed) but now it's getting worse again.
>>DK ignores the caption in the XMP and instead inserts "Sony DSC" (these are Sony raw files).
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>>I guess it's reading a default caption Sony insert in the raw file in preference to the XMP file.
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>>Is there any way to get DK to ignore the caption in the RAW file?
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>>If not, is there any other way to move a RAW file with a caption from one instance of DK to another?
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>>Thanks
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>>Jon
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