Tags not getting read from images

[Gilles Caulier]

Le jeu. 8 juin 2023 à 06:35, Milind Joshi <mmjoshi at iitbombay.org> a écrit :
>
> Unfortunately, I had already assigned the missing tags manually. Hence
> could not recreate this scenario. If I come across this problem in the
> future I will create the debug trace.
>
> On a side note, does digiKam store any information outside the
> digikam4.db file?

In the file metadata if settings is turned on of course.

>I have my main database on a USB hard drive which gets
> accessed by two digiKam programs, one running on my laptop and the other
> one running on my desktop. Both these programs have their own digikamrc
> file storing the settings for each program. Though most of the settings
> are same, there are some differences in the settings for these two programs.
>
> Do I need to take any precautions while sharing the digikam4.db between
> two programs this way? Is there any possibility that the tags assigned
> to the images will get messed up?

the database cannot be acceded by to session at the same time. Also
use the same digiKAm version on both computer.

But why not to use a shared mariadb database over the network ?

https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html#the-network-shares-specificity

Gilles Caulier
>
> mj
>
> On 02.06.2023 11:15:08 am, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > 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
> >>