Star ratings get lost when copying albums from one collection to another?

[Andrey Goreev]

Tonio 
It is clear from the first screenshot (Behavior tab) that you did not check the proper box "Rating" there.Without that digikam writes the information to the database (.db file) only and probably this is why it gets lost when you copy the files outside of the collection.
I have all of them check if that matters.
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-------- Original message --------From: Tonio Kroeger <tonio.kroeger1903 at gmail.com> Date: 2017-10-31  6:56 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org> Subject: Re: Star ratings get lost when copying albums from one collection to another? 
Hi Andrey,

thanks for your quick response!

All my images are in JPG and DNG.

Settings are the following:



Hope this helps
Best wishes
Tonio


On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Tonio
Please specify the image format you use.Also what are your metadata read/write and sidecar settings ?
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#using-setup-metadata
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message --------From: Tonio Kroeger <tonio.kroeger1903 at gmail.com> Date: 2017-10-29  12:12 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: digikam-users at kde.org Subject: Star ratings get lost when copying albums from one collection to another? 
Hi all,

I have a collection on my local hard disk where all pictures come in from the camera. This is the place where I filter, prepare, tag and star rate my pictures. From time to time I copy albums from the local disk to a collection on a external usb-disk. This has been fine over years but now I realized I lost several months of star ratings! 

All star ratings just disappear when moving an album from the local hard disk to the external hard disk. I do this via digikam's move in the GUI. On the console I do not see any errors.

I reproduced this behaviour with the app-image of 5.7 but I am sure it goes back several versions. I still use the sql-lite backend. My overall number of pictures is quit huge, > 300.000.

I suspect a technical issue. On the other hand would it be a good idea to change my workflow?

Thanks

Tonio



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