[digiKam-users] Defective metadata in pictures taken with iPhone

[Marc Palaus]

I don't know if anyone have had similar experiences, but I am having 
trouble with metadata in some pictures taken with an iPhone. In 
particular, it's an iPhone SE. I don't know if that matters, but I have 
not had this problem with any other phone or camera.

Basically, I cannot write nested keywords in those pictures. Keywords 
are saved in the picture, but as a plain list.

For instance, if I write this metadata:

  * People
      o    Person1
      o    Person2
  * Places
      o    Barcelona

After re-reading the metadata, it looks like this:

  * People
  * Person1
  * Person2
  * Places
  * Barcelona

But it's not all pictures, just a subset of them. In the particular case 
I'm having this issue now, it's just 63 pictures out of 443.

Also, digikam does not re-read the written metadata once it's saved, so 
usually you don't notice this problem until this metadata has been 
scanned from digikam in another computer.

As a workaround, I open the picture with a photo editor (e.g. Gimp) and 
overwrite it. Then everything goes back to normal.

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