[digiKam-users] Finding and selecting a whole bunch of unrelated photos

[digikam at 911networks.com]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:31:04 +0100
Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> On dimanche 27 décembre 2020 17:56:15 CET digikam at 911networks.com
> wrote:
> > DK 7.1.0 appimage on Manjaro.
> > 
> > I'm helping an "old friend" (in his 70s). He has about 20,000
> > images. He needs them organized, tagged, titled and captioned. I
> > want to use DK for doing the job.
> > 
> > I will be setting things up for him on his laptop (opensuse).
> > 
> > I want to select the images that he already has uploaded to
> > facebook. I have the list (1000+ images) from his feed.
> > 
> > Is there a way to batch process the adding of the tag : "uploaded
> > | facebook" from the list without have to do it one at the time
> > (find filename => tag)?  
> From within digikam, I don't think so.
> 
> Otherwise, if they are jpg images or you have sidecars, it might be
> possible through a script, using exiftool or exiv2. Easiest if the
> list has one name per line.

I already have the list as a 1 image per line.

Thanks. I didn't think of exiftool to update the xmp files.

How do I get DK to re-read the changed XMP files?



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