[digiKam-users] recovering only some tags from db

[Gilles Caulier]

No. The database only stores a few quantities of XMP/IPTC/EXIF tags,
not all (the most important in fact). You cannot recovering a whole
XMP sidecar using the database
Gilles

Le lun. 4 avr. 2022 à 14:57, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr> a écrit :
>
> 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?
>
> 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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