[digiKam-users] Keyword import issue

[Maik Qualmann]

The problem will be fixed in digiKam-7.7.0:

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/
407c994a2b93d0fb68df014c5b764883abc3dc37[1]

Maik

Am Montag, 21. März 2022, 08:42:15 CET schrieben Sie:
> 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 ?


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