[digiKam-users] recovering only some tags from db

[leoutation at gmx.fr]

On 4/4/22 14:57, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> On lundi 4 avril 2022 14:46:49 CEST leoutation at gmx.fr wrote:
>> On 4/4/22 14:16, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> You want mean XMP sidecar files instead .xmp tags ?
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>>
>>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> Sorry, yes, '.xmp sidecars'
>>
>>> Le dim. 3 avr. 2022 à 21:05, <leoutation at gmx.fr> a écrit :
>>>> Hi
>>>> I deleted about 1000 .xmp tags, they were placed in a tag folder 'F'.
>>>> These tags still appear in tags manager, I think there are still in
>>>> database. I don't want to sync from db to images because it takes a very
>>>> long time, and it's not safe. I dream: is there a way  to recover them
>>>> by selecting only  'F' tag folder? I tried it inside tags manager, it
>>>> doesn't work :(
>>>> Conditions: digikam git version, mariadb external database
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Maderios
>>
>> --
>> Maderios
>
> Normally, the metadata should still be in the database, the .xmp sidecars are
> there for exchange with other programs and to provide some data redundancy.
>
> So why not just rewrite the metadata to the sidecars?
> Why do you think that is not safe?

I don't "think" it, I just remember bad experiences in the past.
Anyway, i have a backup of my images + .xmp files but i should prefer
solve problem inside Digikam.


>
> What's unsafe is writing metadata to raw files, as errors can make it
> impossible for raw editors to read the file (I expect that to be rare, but
> I've seen some reports about it happening). And of course, writing to any file
> ca go wrong occasionally, that's why we make regular backups.
>
> Remco
>
>
>


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Maderios