Digikam on windows not reading and displaying tags consistently, ,

[Johan van Noooten]

Hello, I'm running digiKam 3.2.0 on two Windows 7 computers. On one of them, a laptop, it works fine. On the other, my desktop with the 27 inch monitor I want to view photos on, I have a problem. It is inconsistent about displaying the tags I have given the pictures if they were added before I installed digiKam on the computer. For some pictures, it reads them. Others, it doesn't. There seems to be no pattern I can detect which would explain the difference. The pictures in some folders have no tags displayed unless I added them afterwards using digiKam. Other folders have some of the older tags displayed, but not all or even most of them. If a photo has any of the older tags displayed, it has them all.  I know the missing tags are there because I can see the tags using windows explorer and right clicking for "properties" etc. Any suggestions as to how to fix this? Thanks in advance

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[Simon Cropper-3]

On 04/09/13 12:26, Johan van Noooten wrote:

> Hello, I'm running digiKam 3.2.0 on two Windows 7 computers. On one of
> them, a laptop, it works fine. On the other, my desktop with the 27 inch
> monitor I want to view photos on, I have a problem. It is inconsistent
> about displaying the tags I have given the pictures if they were added
> before I installed digiKam on the computer. For some pictures, it reads
> them. Others, it doesn't. There seems to be no pattern I can detect
> which would explain the difference. The pictures in some folders have no
> tags displayed unless I added them afterwards using digiKam. Other
> folders have some of the older tags displayed, but not all or even most
> of them. If a photo has any of the older tags displayed, it has them
> all.  I know the missing tags are there because I can see the tags using
> windows explorer and right clicking for "properties" etc. Any
> suggestions as to how to fix this? Thanks in advance
>
>
>
>
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Not all packages add tags correctly.

I would make a collection of files that have metadata and don't then
inspect them with exiftools. If you can see all the data try using this
tool to extract and reinsert the data in your test files (ensure you
keep the originals separate).

Once you do this then see if digiKam can see and displays the data. If
it does use exiftools to extract and insert all the photos -- directory
by directory.

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/~bogdan/ (Windows GUI Version)



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[Andrew Goodbody-3]

On 04/09/13 03:26, Johan van Noooten wrote:

> Hello, I'm running digiKam 3.2.0 on two Windows 7 computers. On one of
> them, a laptop, it works fine. On the other, my desktop with the 27 inch
> monitor I want to view photos on, I have a problem. It is inconsistent
> about displaying the tags I have given the pictures if they were added
> before I installed digiKam on the computer. For some pictures, it reads
> them. Others, it doesn't. There seems to be no pattern I can detect
> which would explain the difference. The pictures in some folders have no
> tags displayed unless I added them afterwards using digiKam. Other
> folders have some of the older tags displayed, but not all or even most
> of them. If a photo has any of the older tags displayed, it has them
> all.  I know the missing tags are there because I can see the tags using
> windows explorer and right clicking for "properties" etc. Any
> suggestions as to how to fix this? Thanks in advance

Make sure 'Write metadata to images' is turned on on both computerss.
Then use re-read metadata from image on the desktop. You should probably
be using mysql as the database and access the photos through a path that
looks identical on both computers. There is a hack you can do on the
database to add more root paths if the access paths are not the same,
but I don't have the details handy.

Andrew
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