[digiKam-users] Import category list into Digikam

[Remco Viëtor]

On lundi 6 septembre 2021 15:06:34 CEST Christian Grandclément wrote:
> Hello !
> 
> I'm trying to use *Digikam (v. 7.3.0 Win64)*, for replacing my present
> pictures management software (Photools imatch) that I find much too
> complicated, akward to use and poorly suited to some very basic fonctions.
> 
> My present question is *how to import into Digikam the hierarchical
> categories I'm presently using* (syntax is like
> _Persons.Family.FamilyCell.Child X_ or
> _Information.Culture.Civilization.Italian Roman_, with up to 5 levels of
> indentation). The list of categories is on a _text file_. I need to
> import it, so as to be able to assign one or several categories to each
> new picture.
> The import operation must be automatic, since the category list
> comprises now over 1200 entries.
> 
Can your current program save those categories as keywords/tags in xmp sidecar 
files?
In that case, digikam might be able to automatically read those xmp files when 
you import the images in digikam

Remco