Tags not getting read from images

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

A debugview trace can help to investigate the problem when you try to
re-read the metadata from this image to sync the database.

See this page for details :

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 31 mai 2023 à 14:19, Milind Joshi <mmjoshi at iitbombay.org> a écrit :
>
> I have two installations of digiKam 8.0.0. There are two directories
> where the jpg images are stored. Each installation reads and writes to
> these two directories independent of each other. I tag the jpg images in
> one installation and physically move these images to the other directory
> overwriting them if they already exist. However, after refreshing the
> album digiKam does not see these tags written in the other installation.
> This is so even after I reread metadata from the file. If I use the edit
> metadata command, these tags are visible under the Keywords tab of the
> editor indicating that the image file does have this information.
> Similarly, the Metadata tab has the correct tag name under the IPTC tab.
> If so, why does digiKam not "see" these tags? Even if I search on these
> tags the image is not found by the search command.
>
> My OS is Windows 11 for both the installations of digiKam.
>
> mj
>