[Digikam-users] split an album into sub-albums

[Marie-Noëlle Augendre]

2015-09-17 9:47 GMT+02:00 Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it>:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Martin Burnicki
> <martin.burnicki at burnicki.net> wrote:
> > If you have tagged your images, and the tags have been also been written
> > to the image files then this should be no problem, since the "new"
> > collections are scanned and the Metatags are read from the files.
> >
> > However, if your tags have *not* been written to the image files then
> > Metatags might eventually get lost if you remove the original collection
> > and add new ones.
> >
>
> How can I know if tags have been written to the images?


There are several options in the configuration menu. You can write them in
the database and/or the file and/or a sidecar file.


> I have always
> assumed that the tags are stored only in the digikam database, and
> then accessible via digikam only. Is it correct that if tags have been
> written to images I should be view them on file manager too?
>

Yes, provided the external program you use is able to read the metadata and
display them.

Marie-Noëlle




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