[digiKam-users] Keyword import issue

[Maik Qualmann]

The ")" comes from the metadata entries of xmp.acdsee.categories. This entry 
contains the entry (none) from which digiKam then only decodes the ")". This 
is definitely a bug that we will fix.
You can temporarily enable database cleanup in digiKam Settings-> Metadata. 
And then deactivate the entry [ ] xmp.acdsee.categories in the list for 
keywords in the extended metadata setting.
Now read in the metadata from the corresponding images again, either via album 
or via selected item menu. 

Maik

Am Montag, 21. März 2022, 08:10:09 CET schrieb 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 ?