Rebuilding database from xmp files

[Peter Albrecht]

Hello Simon,

did you enable "Read from sidecar files" in digiKam options?

Regards,
	Peter

On 10.12.2017 07:05, Simon Cropper wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have recently changed the disk that I store my Digikam directory.
> 
> I have attempted to rebuild my database based on the metadata in the files and
> associated XMP files.
> 
> The problem is that the database scours the drive and imports the file's
> metadata but does not suck in anything from the XMP files.
> 
> The XMP files have the tags present both as *<digiKam:TagsList>* tag list and a
> wide variety of other formats. The problem is none of the tags are being picked
> up and put into the database.
> 
> I have looked in the manual and on-line but have not seen anything about how to
> get these tags into the system.
> 
> I am using...
> 
>     Ubuntu 16.04
>     Mate Desktop 1.12.1
>     Digikam 4.12 (13 April 2016)
> 
> Should I be using a more recent version of digikam or is there a sequence of
> events I should follow?
>