Bulk editing EXIF data (GPS and dates)?

[Gilles Caulier]

Le lun. 1 sept. 2025 à 07:48, Thomas <sdktda at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Hi Gilles,
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> Thanks!
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> > Don't forget to turn on the right metadata options to register date
> > and GPS to exif, else only the database will be patched (the default):
> > https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html#behavior-settings
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> So, while I was trying to figure this out myself, I also found this doc
> page. And it seems to me that enabling this setting is global for all of
> DK across all collections. This seems dangerous to me because I only
> want to have DK edit specific images. I do not want it to touch my
> photos in general.
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> Some years back (maybe 10+ years), I had a problem with DK accidentally
> adding metadata to all my photos (I think it was tags that got added)
> and it was a work to clean up manually.
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> Is there no way to keep the global setting of not having DK touch
> metadata except for specific photos?

Not really. If you don't want to touch your image metadata, use the
sidecar solution. It will be used in priority and all changes will be
hosted in dedicated XMP extra files near the image files.

Else as i already said before, without to turn on the Exif metadata
tags to patch, only the database will host the changes.

Best regards

Gilles Caulier