[digiKam-users] old Canon CRW not recognized as RAW (for Metadata)?

[Maik Qualmann]

Can you send me a test image by email? I can not reproduce the problem with a 
test image of Canon G3 from the web (CR2). It is recognized as a RAW file and 
no metadata is written to the image.

Maik

Am Freitag, 6. Juli 2018, 17:16:53 CEST schrieb karsten_df:
> one more issue I've come across, as I've been spending some time tagging old
> pictures, now that dk runs so fast with the internals database..
> Again this is with the 5.9.0. AppImage on Tubleweed.
> 
> I've set digikam to write metadata also to the picture files in addition to
> the database.
> For good reasons this should not be performed for RAW pictures. Actually, I
> believe, writing metadata to RAW files is generally disabled in current
> digikam, as the corrsponding configuration item is greyed out.
> 
> For my recent RAW pictures (Olympus ORF) this works perfectly well.
> 
> Some old RAW files from a Canon G3 (built around 2003) however get destroyed
> as soon as I assign tags to them. digikam seems to write metadata to the
> RAW file, which results in destroyed files of a few kB size.
> Not a major desaster in this case, as I had a backup, but I wonder why that
> happens.
> 
> best regards -
> Karsten
> 
> 
> 
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