[digiKam-users] Keyword import issue

[Frédéric Da Vitoria]

Hello Maik,

Thank you for your answer.

I am about to send you one by direct mail.

Le 21/03/2022 à 07:06, Maik Qualmann a écrit :
> 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 ?
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>
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Frédéric Da Vitoria