[Digikam-users] Import XMP doesn't work

[Louis A. Turk]

On 05/02/2016 01:27 PM, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the reply. The metadata actually was being imported. It just
wasn't displaying is the manner I expected.

Louis

> _______________________________________________
> Digikam-users mailing list
> Digikam-users at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
>