[digiKam-users] Keyword import issue

[Frédéric Da Vitoria]

Maik,

Wow! That answer was quick! Thank you for your answer. It solved my issue.

Regards.

Le 21/03/2022 à 08:42, Maik Qualmann a écrit :
> 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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Frédéric Da Vitoria