[digiKam-users] Rename Question

[Mick Sulley]

Running DigiKam 6.2.0 appimage on Linux Mint

I am trying to adjust metadata on a few pictures for a presentation.  
What I want to do is change the year to show that Digikam will rename to 
the data the picture was taken.  To do that I have -

Highlighted the pictures, selected Item > Edit Metadata - changed the 
year for Creation, Original and Digitisation date & time to be 2017  - 
Apply & Close

Highlight the pictures again, right click and select Rename and set to 
PIC[meta:Exif.Image.DateTimeOriginal]

The result is that they are renamed to the 2019 date they had at first, 
so they do not seem to have picked up the Exif date.

Why has it not worked?  Have I done something wrong?

Thanks

Mick