[Digikam-users] Tags and everything related to them

[Gilles Caulier]

2014-07-25 14:20 GMT+02:00 eric <e.longuemare at laposte.net>:
> Hello,
>
> Gilles, how should I update from repository ?
>
> https://www.digikam.org/download?q=download/GIT
>
> Should I only run ./download-repos again (after uninstalling my local
> version of digikam) ?

on directories where are source code use "git pull" to update source
code from git/master

>
> Or should I uninstall all and the download repository again ?

This is a radical way. It will work sure...

Gilles Caulier

>
>
> Veaceslav,
>
> Have you some case to test.
>
> I have a test collection with a lot of pictures (that I had clean with
> exiv2) and tagged with digikam since old digikam versions (2004), tags
> are not write to file since two years and cleaned with exiv2 due to
> those "tags" jam. I will try to launch some tests next week.
>
> Greatings,
>
> Eric
>
>
>
> Le mercredi 23 juillet 2014 à 20:06 +0300, Veaceslav Munteanu a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm once again fighting with tags and this battle seem to have no ending.
>>
>> I figured out that digiKam once again read data from 5 different
>> namespaces(IPTC, Xmp digikam, Xmp Microsoft, Xmp lightroom) and only
>> modify it to IPTC and own XMP namespace.
>>
>> This is bad because:
>> If you wipe -> trigger write and then read -> all deleted tags are back.
>>
>> Some users said that namespaces that are not from digiKam should not be touched.
>> Well this is impossible, you either:
>>
>> 1. grant digiKam to delete and modify all namespaces that it can read
>> 2. remove the ability to read from that protected namespace
>>
>> Any other combination result in total mess on read/write.
>>
>> I'm waiting for suggestions about do you prefer the most: 1 or 2
>>
>> Veaceslav
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