[digiKam-users] Metadata missing after moving images between albums

[Maik Qualmann]

A possible cause could be this bug:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449315[1]

The problem could not only occur when deleting images, but also when moving them. 
However, the problem will not be fixed until digiKam-7.6.0. But it could also have a 
completely different cause for you. Normally, rereading the metadata from the images 
in question can recover most of the metadata if it was stored in the images. Otherwise 
we need a debug log when the problem occurs, how to create it is described here: 

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/[2]

Maik

Am Freitag, 4. März 2022, 02:17:20 CET schrieb WuliNuChem:
> I'm new here, so forgive me if my question is not formatted correctly.
> 
> I have recently upgraded to DigiKam version 7.5.0.
> It is configured as MySQL Server (was going to set it up for two PC's but
> never did).
> I have approximately 100,000 images.
> 
> My issue:
> Click on album name and highlight some thumbnail images - 60 images the
> last time this issue occurred.
> Drag the images and drop into a different album and select move.
> Images move correctly but metadata disappears from the thumbnail and the
> thumbnail pop up (tooltips I think it's called). And the date box on the
> captions page is blank: time is still there.
> The metadata still exists according the the metadata tab on the right
> toolbar (and exists in the image file according to a third party metadata
> app).
> 
> I figure this has to be a bug, so I guess I'm asking how to get the
> metadata back where it belongs.
> 
> Where does the metadata shown on the thumbnails come from? The database or
> the image file? Same with the right sidebar metadata tab?
> I assume it would be from the db. So maybe the db wasn't updated properly
> during the move?  Is there a way to compare the two?
> Can I resync?
> 
> The weird thing is 26 out of 60 images that lost the data were in the
> middle of the new album images (as sorted by date).
> 
> Any thoughts? I have some screenshots but I'm not sure of the policy on
> posting them. I haven't seen any screen shots during my search for similar
> issues.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gord



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[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449315
[2] https://www.digikam.org/contribute/
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