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

[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 27 décembre 2020 18:38:33 CET digikam at 911networks.com wrote:
> 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?

Select them and reread metadata. It shouldn't be a problem to reload more than 
the strict minimum, but if you'd have to load all 20k, it will take some 
time...

Otherwise, if the facebook files are already in one or two directories, you 
can select multiple files and update tags for all of them (just add the tag 
with the active selection)