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

[Maik Qualmann]

The cause could be this problem:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436286

Maik

Am Mittwoch, 29. September 2021, 19:26:39 CEST schrieb 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.