[digiKam-users] How to prevent Digikam from ignoring changed Metadata?

[Remco Viëtor]

On jeudi 14 mai 2020 18:11:41 CEST Chris Green wrote:
> Well I now have an actual problem with Digikam and Metadata.
> 
> I changed the metadata on some pictures in Digikam and then, almost
> immediately realised I had overwritten some (fairly unimportant, but
> I'd lke to get it back) data on a dozen pictures or so.
> 
> No problem I think, I have hourly and daily incremental backups so
> I'll copy the old, unchanged, versions back into my Digikam album.
> 
> But of course this doesn't work because Digikam keeps the *changed*
> metadata in its database and ignores the new metadata from the 'old'
> image files.
> 
> So how do I do this?  I need to tell Digikam to throw away its
> Metadata for a few images and use the metadata in the images.

Disable the reading of changed files on startup,
close digikam,
replace the modified files with versions from your backup, 
start digikam
select the affected images
use "item"->"read metadata from file"