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

[Marc Palaus]

Oh, yep, that could be it.

In any case, if anyone is interested in a quick solution, I just read 
and re-write the metadata on the affected pictures using exiftool. Put 
all the problematic pictures on a folder and run:

exiftool -XMP:All -TagsFromFile @ -XMP:all *.JPG

El 29/9/21 a les 19:48, Maik Qualmann ha escrit:
> The cause could be this problem:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436286
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> Maik
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> 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.
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