DigiKam 8.4.0 on Windows 10: ExifTool not found nor selectable although it is part of the Digikam package

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

This is just a packaging problem with ExifTool appearing at the last minute.

It's already fixed with current 8.5.0 pre-release available here :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 19 juil. 2024 à 16:50, <neinei at gmx.net> a écrit :
>
> Hi there,
>
> first of all, thanks for providing us DigiKam 8.4.0 :-)
>
> I installed digiKam-8.4.0-Qt6-Win64.exe on a fresh Windows 10 (up to
> date patch level). The installation as well as the setup procedure
> worked fine. Digikam threw just one error message stating that it is not
> finding the exiftool binary. So I tried to select the exiftool binary in
> "C:Program Files\digiKam\" manually but there is no way for me to select
> it. It is just not accepted by digikam.
>
> So I uninstalled DigiKam 8.4.0 and installed DigiKam
> digiKam-8.3.0-Win64.exe and all worked fine including the use of
> exiftool. Perhaps someone knows how to solve the exiftool issue in
> DigiKam 8.4.0..
>
> Best,
> neinei
>