Exporting metadata on multiple photos

[Remco Viëtor]

On mardi 2 avril 2024 01:33:03 CEST Hal Marietta wrote:
> I need to copy some of my photos into Lightroom and discovered that the
> metadata doesn’t come across. Is there any way to export metadata for
> multiple photos from DigiKam so it will populate in Lightroom?

Assuming those are raw images, you'll need to use sidecar files to even have a 
chance to transfer metadata you added in Digikam. Exif metadata should be read 
by lightroom, though (things like capture date, exposition parameters, ...; 
those are stored in the raw files themselves)

But writing the sidecars isn't enough, I think you'll have to rename them from 
digikam's scheme ("<name>.<raw_ext>.xmp") to lightroom's scheme 
("<name>.xmp"). And of course do that before trying to import in lightroom.

Even then, there's a chance lightroom won't understand the xml tags used by 
digikam. That's not a bug in either program, but inherent in the way xml 
works.