[digiKam-users] Problem moving images to other albums

[digikam at 911networks.com]

Moved: 160 odd images and 7 xmp (lowercase) did not move with the
images.

The debug is at:

https://www.sritch.com/pages/digikam-debug.txt

The 7 xmp files missed are:

$ ls -alF /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-*.xmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46 /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0928.xmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46 /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0929.xmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46 /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0930.xmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46 /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0931.xmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46 /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0932.xmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46 /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0933.xmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46 /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0934.xmp
$ 


On Thu, 03 Jun 2021 22:12:08 +0200
Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't reproduce the problem, of course sidecars are automatically
> moved with the image. Both sidecar formats are supported when
> copying / moving, i.e. BASENAME.xmp and BASENAME.EXT.xmp. Are you
> sure you are using digiKam-7.2.0? Copy / move support for
> BASENAME.xmp was only added in this version.  Possibly activate
> debug output by setting the environment variable and posting the
> output in the terminal of the move process. 
> 
> https://www.digikam.org/contribute/
> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2021, 21:37:24 CEST schrieb
> digikam at 911networks.com:
> > DK 7.2.0 appimage on Manjaro KDE (current)
> > 
> > DK root album is: /photos/
> > 
> > My workflow:
> > 
> > 1. copy all images from the sd card to: /photos/intake
> > 2. open DK
> > 3. look through the album  /photos/intake, delete the out of
> > focus, rename from img_0138.cr2 to
> > pano-granville-island-20210412-0138.cr2 (for example)
> > 4. when done, move them to the "proper albums" with "right click >
> > move to album"
> > 
> > The problem is that DK "forgets" to also move the XMP files
> > associated with the images. They are left in the /photos/intake
> > folder and I need to move them manually (no xmp in the destination
> > album for these images).
> > 
> > BTW, my xmps are filename.xmp (not filename.ext.xmp). I don't
> > know if this related to that  
> 
> 
> 
> 


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