[Digikam-users] Import XMP doesn't work

[Remco Viëtor]

On Monday 02 May 2016 10:18:24 Louis A. Turk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Import XMP doesn't work on Digikam 14.4. It seems to go through the
> motions, but doesn't actually write the imported data to the target 
files.
> 
> I'm working on raw files.
> 
> Perhaps I don't know how to use it, or is this a known bug? Is there a
> solution?
> 

Hi,

Two things:
1- There's unfortunately not just one XMP format. Or rather, there's not 
just one way to store the information in the XMP files, things like 
captions and keywords can be written under different tags. 

As a result of this, while Digikam can read all valid XMP files (it is a 
version of XML), it can only import a certain number of tags used. The tags 
it doesn't understand will be silently ignored (as is standard behaviour 
for XML).

And there's the problem of XMP files names, there are several conventions 
for generating the XMP file name from the image file name.

So it would be helpful to know where the XMP files to be imported come 
from.

2- What do you mean by "target files"? Importing XMP should write the data 
to the Digikam database, not to any other place (and notably, not to the 
raw image files associated with the XMP files or the XMP files themselves).

Remco