broken xmp files

[Dan McDaniel]

Thanks. I'll give that a try. Is there a way to force it to re-write all
the xmp files?


On Sat 21.Oct.17 19:41, Andrey Goreev wrote:
>I think Maik might already fixed this. I do recall having a similar conversation a couple of months ago.Have you tried pre-release bundle ver. 5.8.0 ?
>
>Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>-------- Original message --------From: Dan McDaniel <dan at dm3.us> Date: 2017-10-21  7:34 PM  (GMT-07:00) To: digikam-users at kde.org Subject: broken xmp files
>
>I'm using 5.7.0 on a Mac.
>
>I used Digikam to tag and rate about 1000 images, a combination of jpegs
>and raws. For about half of them Digikam didn't write a complete xmp
>file, but only the first line:
>
>  <?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
>
>On some of them I tried going back into DK and changing the star rating.
>This caused it to write out the xmp file including the rating. But it
>didn't write the tags. To get DK to write the tags I had to make a
>change to a tag. Then to get it to write the title you have to make a
>change to the title and so on. Basically, you have to remove stars,
>tags, titles, and everything and add them back in to force DK to write
>them out to the xmp file.
>
>I hope that this can be fixed because as-is DK isn't very useful to me.
>
>
>-- 
>Dan McDaniel