[digiKam-users] Updating raw file dates

[Maik Qualmann]

Wait for digiKam-8.0.0, here it will be possible to enable ExifTool to write metadata.
It is safer to edit RAW files with ExifTool.

If you are keen to experiment and you make a backup of the database and your images,
you can download an automatically created Windows digiKam-8.0.0 version here:

https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Windows%2064-bit/job/Digikam_Nightly_win64/[1] (*.exe file)

You have to do without HEIF support at the moment.
Select ExifTool in the setup in the digiKam program directory under /bin.

Maik

Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2022, 20:30:23 CEST schrieb Alan H:
> I have a large collection of digitized slides and photos. Perhaps I should
> have thought of changing the camera’s date to the date the photo was taken,
> but I didn’t. I have been using exiftool to change the dates for both jpg
> and raw photos with no ill effects (after 1000s) from editing a raw file’s
> date metadata.
> 
> The work flow would be so much faster and convenient if I could do
> everything (captions, ratings, etc as well as dates) in digicam. I still
> have 1000s of photos to go. My experience though is that digicam will not
> update the raw file’s date metadata. It only writes it to a sidecar xmp.
> 
> In the configuration settings there is a check box for writing to raw files
> (“dangerous” it says). If I am only changing the value of a metadata
> block/field that is already present, could I just check that for when dates
> are being edited and then change it back for everything else? Does “Exiv2
> library” work the same as exiftool for which I have never had a problem?
> Digikam 7.6.0, Windows 10. Thanks. Alan
> 
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[1] https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Windows%2064-bit/job/Digikam_Nightly_win64/
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