[digiKam-users] Keyword import issue

[Maik Qualmann]

I downloaded a sample image of the Canon S5 IS from the web to test it. There 
is nothing special about this camera. If you'd like, email me a problematic 
image and I'll see what's causing it. 

Maik

Am Montag, 21. März 2022, 00:29:03 CET schrieb Frédéric Da Vitoria:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently switched to digiKam and I am experiencing a strange issue
> with keywords.
> 
> First of all, I am using digiKam 7.5.0 in French and translating some
> things back to English in this post, so the exact words I will use could
> be wrong.
> 
> I have more than 22 000 files. Most of them were tagged with keywords
> using a Windows software, FotoAlbum. I loaded my files in digiKam and
> was pretty much happy with the results. Some things will have to be
> sorted out but I haven't found anything major except for one thing:
> 
> 818 files were loaded with keyword ")". I tried to find some relation
> between those, but could not find any. Some pics were tagged with
> keywords containing characters, but some not, some use keywords with
> more than one word, most don't, and some pics use only the simple
> keyword "ciel" (one word, no accent...). As much as I can tell, when
> digiKam thinks a picture has the ")" keyword, digiKam does not see any
> other keyword in this picture.
> 
> I examined pictures with only the keyword "ciel". I chose this keyword
> because it is one word and does not have any accented characters and I
> have a few pictures with only this keyword. I used a binary level tool
> to check a file with the strange ")" keyword and a file in which digiKam
> correctly sees "ciel" and both have the sequence 63 69 65 6C, so I guess
> this is not a character encoding issue. Both exiftool (v 11.93) and
> exiv2 (v 0.25 001900) find the keyword "ciel" in the "correct" file as
> well as in the ")" file. Apart from this, it seems digiKam read metadata
> from the 818 files correctly, at least the dates and times, my name
> (which does contain accented characters) and the camera model are correct.
> 
> Speaking of the camera, and this could be the most important : as much
> as I can tell, all ")" pictures were taken using a Canon S5 IS. Most of
> the pictures I took with the S5 IS were correctly loaded in digiKam. I
> did not use Canon software to do the tagging since I used FotoAlbum for
> this, and I've had FotoAlbum long before I got the S5, and long after I
> stopped using it. I had another Canon before, but none of it's pictures
> were in the 818 lot. I have used a Fuji, a Minolta and a Panasonic since
> then too, which were absent from the 818 list as much as I can tell. And
> the 818 lot ranges from 2007 to 2015, which matches the dates when I
> started ans stopped using the S5 IS. So again, I believe all the 818
> pictures were taken with the Canon S5 IS.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea about what is going on and more importantly how
> I could fix this ?