[Digikam-users] XMP data and moving image files

[Jens Benecke]

Hi,

Yes. But this also happens when dragging files outside Digikam.
I think this should not happen (drag & drop or copy & paste to an outside application should always be a copy operation, moving should only be possible within Digikam and cause the expected behavior - e.g. if I move images in the tags view Digikam should just adjust the tags, not physically move the file).

I just found out the hard way that it is possible to *move* all images that have a specific tag (selected in the tags left sidebar) to an USB stick. It took me half an hour to sort the images back into their folders … :-(  And Digikam did *not* also move the XMP files - they stayed inside the respective folders. It’s probably also possible with the faces view or the locations view … this is not good. IMHO.

Is this a bug? It certainly looks like one to me. (Digikam 4.14, Linux Ubuntu LTS 14.04, philip5’s packages)

Is this still the case with Digikam 5?


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> Am 18.03.2016 um 15:59 schrieb maderios <maderios at gmail.com>:
> 
> On 03/18/2016 03:23 PM, Cathy Keeton wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> Where does digiKam store XMP data? Is it stored in the same folders as
>> the photos?
>> 
>> I have several duplicate xmp files, and don’t want to delete the wrong ones.
>> 
> Hi
> A thing you have to know if you use xmp for metadata: never use a filemanager to delete or sort/move photos, use only Digikam, otherwise you'll loose metadata.
> 
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> Maderios
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