[Digikam-users] 2 problems tagging multiple images

[Phil]

I went back to 3.5.0 to do more testing and I found both the problems 
which I described below for 4.0.0. (Both running on OSX 10.9.2.)

When sidecars are truncated, I see the following error messages on stdout:

digikam(21240)/KEXIV2 
KExiv2Iface::KExiv2::Private::printExiv2MessageHandler: Exiv2 ( 3 ) : 
XMP Toolkit error 101: Unregistered schema namespace URI
digikam(21240)/KEXIV2 
KExiv2Iface::KExiv2::Private::printExiv2MessageHandler: Exiv2 ( 3 ) : 
Failed to encode XMP metadata.
digikam(21240)/KEXIV2 KExiv2Iface::KExiv2::save: Metadata for file ' 
"20140101-144225-IMG_4657.jpg" ' written to XMP sidecar.

I don't see any error messages on stdout which correspond to the other 
problem, when XMP metadata in the image file is not updated.

I have done more testing with 3.3.0 on ubuntu 12.04 and have not been 
able to provoke these problems.

Philip


On 19/05/14 23:24, Phil wrote:
> Hi
>
> I meet the following problems when tagging multiple images at the same
> time, in both 4.0.0 and 4.1.0. I don't see this problem in a 3.3.0 which
> I happen to have on another machine. Anyone else see this?
>
> How to generate:
> Select 10 images.
> Apply a tag to all.
>
> Problem 1, XMP metadata not always updated in image files:
> When writing metadata to the image files, dk occasionally omits to write
> the new XMP metadata, leaving the previous XMP metadata in the image
> file. This can be seen by for example by tag fields not being updated
> when tags are changed and applied. You have to look through the images
> one-by-one to find one or two where this has happened. (The IPTC
> metadata is always written correctly, so when this happens there is a
> difference between the IPTC:Keywords (tags) field and the various XMP
> tags fields.)
>
> Problem 2, xmp sidecars sometimes truncated:
> Occasionally one or more of the xmp sidecars is truncated to just its
> first line, with a size of only 39 bytes. (Use a file manager to see
> that this has happened.)
>
> If the problems don't show up the first time, change the tags and then
> re-apply. Over 2 or 3 cycles I always see both problems appear.
>
> I see this behaviour when 10 (or more) images are selected. I have not
> seen it with only 1 or 2 images selected. I haven't checked in between.
>
> The problems appear random. A file which has a problem the first time
> usually doesn't have it after tagging a second time.
>
> The problems appear to be independent, i.e. when writing metadata to
> both sidecars and image files, they don't occur together, they affect
> different images.
>
> Regards
> Philip
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