[digiKam-users] EXIF in PNG not recognized

[Maik Qualmann]

You have to read in the metadata of the image again, Menu-> Item-> Reread 
Metadata from file. 

Maik

Am Sonntag, 14. März 2021, 20:51:13 CET schrieb Rainer J.H. Brandt:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wrote:
> > I'm currently learning how to build Exiv2 so that I can reproduce the
> > problem and test.  Anyway, I will talk to the Exiv2 people.
> 
> I did that and learned that although I used exiftool to store the dates in
> my image, that wasn't EXIF data, but was stored in a "tEXt" chunk of the
> PNG file.
> 
> So I used exiv2 for another attempt to add the creation date as EXIF data to
> my image file.  That worked, and after a refresh on the album, DigiKam
> recognizes it, too.  Very nice.
> 
> However, in the "Dates" view within DigiKam, the image still doesn't appear
> in the period given by the creation date.  DigiKam still shows it in the
> period given by the image file date.  That must be a bug, right?
> 
> Thanks, Rainer