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

[Andreas Mair]

Hi,

no ideas?

What about XMP sidecar files?
I'm thinking of syncing the photos' metadata  to XMP sidecar files and
then move the files to the destination folder.

Now I'd like to verify that each photo's tags are still all right. How
can I do that?

Any help appreciated!

Best regards,
Andreas

2014-02-09 20:44 GMT+01:00 Andreas Mair <amair.sob at gmail.com>:
> 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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