[Digikam-users] Lost tags (was: Re: digiKam 3.5.0 import/rename not working as expected)

[Andreas Mair]

Hi,

searching the Internet I think I've found the reason of the lost tags:
Last year I bought a new PC where I now have enough harddisk space to
hold my complete collection of photos. So I moved that part of my
collection that used to be stored on an external drive to fixed drive.
I didn't know that I better move them using digiKam and thus did it on
the command line.

As I didn't do much in digiKam since then (at least less then I did
before), I grabbed digikam4.db and the external pictures from my
backups. Now the lost tags are back :-)
After that I started to move those photos to my fixed drived using
digiKam. Doing this I noticed that some photos in *one* folder lose
their tags while moving them. I don't know why. Any ideas?

Now I've one big folder tree left that has to be moved, but I'm scared
to move them because I don't want to lose the tags of those 4900
photos.
Is there anything I can do before I do the move?
Export the tags so that I can import them later?

Best regards,
Andreas


2014-02-09 7:39 GMT+01:00 Andreas Mair <amair.sob at gmail.com>:
> Hi Gilles,
>
> the list looks promising and I really can't wait to see release 4.0. I
> guess I set up a VM where I can test digiKam betas.
>
> In the meantime I tried to find some photos in digiKam for a new
> printed photoalbum and wondered why I couldn't find photos I new I had
> taken by using tags.
> Well, to make a long story short: digiKam must have lost lots of the
> tags I set on my photos. Actually it seems that only photos taken by
> my daughter lost their tags. She started taking photos 2007 and she
> took thousands of photos. Now I all have to review them and tag them
> again.
> I don't know when or why that that happened, but that helps to lose
> faith in digiKam...
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
>
>
> 2014-02-08 18:09 GMT+01:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
>> 2014-02-08 17:22 GMT+01:00 Andreas Mair <amair.sob at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi Gilles,
>>>
>>> you suggest to use a beta release?
>>> No go! First it's not (yet) in Gentoo, second I don't trust digiKam
>>> betas because IHMO digiKam finals often have features not working as
>>> expected and I don't think betas will do better :-(
>>>
>>> Don't get me wrong:
>>> I really don't want to rant, I really loved the rock solid digiKam
>>> <2.0, but starting with digiKam 2.0 I've always had problems with this
>>> or that feature. For example renaming at imports didn't work for me
>>> since 3.2.0 (release 2013-05-15). With 4.0.0 coming in May this year
>>> this means a full year with a broken feature.
>>
>> A lots of previous features are restored now.
>>
>> Just take a look to current list of bugzilla files closed :
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?f1=cf_versionfixedin&o1=equals&query_format=advanced&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=NEEDSINFO&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&v1=4.0.0&product=digikam&product=digikamimageplugins&product=kipiplugins&product=showfoto&list_id=927158
>>
>> Why we wait more time with 4.0.0 : because we want a good release...
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
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