[digiKam-users] exiv2 corrupted image metadata

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

I recommend to use ExifTool from command line which have plenty of options
to migrate or copy metadata chunks. Look this page for details :

https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#COPYING-EXAMPLES

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 24 déc. 2021 à 10:20, Hans-Peter Huth <hans-ph at web.de> a écrit :

> On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 05:19:30 +0100
> Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > digiKam come with own version of Exiv2.
> >
> > digiKam 7.5.0 pre-release bundle is compiled with Exiv2 0.27-maintenance
> > git branch which must include fixx for this problem.
> >
> > https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/tree/0.27-maintenance
> >
> > Try digiKam pre release bundle here :
> >
> > https://files.kde.org/digikam/
>
> I tried with the appimage, and yes, this now works. Great!
>
> I do have however already some versions of the original images which still
> have the old 'empty' Exif info. Is there an easy way to copy the meta data
> from the original image to the versions? Manipulate the XMP file?
>
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