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I created a ~200-photo album in /home/john/Pictures and added captions,
tags, and revised creation dates. Earlier, I had copied the same photographs to /media/disk/Photographs and had created a few captions and tags there. (There's a small digikam4.db file there dated a month ago.) Although I worked with the photos in that location a little bit, a month ago, but I then did much more extensive work with the /home/john/Pictures copy. How do I get the complete set of metadata (in /home/john/Pictures/digikam4.db) into /media/disk/Photographs? As soon as I'm confident this is done, I'd like to completely delete the /home/john/Pictures folder, which was always intended to be temporary. The answer to this is probably pretty simple, but I didn't find it in the Handbook. (Digikam 1.4.0) -- ---John Registered Linux User #291592 Kubuntu Maverick Meerkat, KDE 4.5.1 _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Il giorno 18/feb/2011, alle ore 02.17, John B. Egger ha scritto: > I created a ~200-photo album in /home/john/Pictures and added captions, > tags, and revised creation dates. Earlier, I had copied the same > photographs to /media/disk/Photographs and had created a few captions > and tags there. (There's a small digikam4.db file there dated a month > ago.) Although I worked with the photos in that location a little bit, a > month ago, but I then did much more extensive work with the > /home/john/Pictures copy. How do I get the complete set of metadata (in > /home/john/Pictures/digikam4.db) into /media/disk/Photographs? So metadata you want (for some picture) is on /home/john/Pictures, and you want to discard metadata stored in /media/disk/Photographs (for the same pictures), right? I'd setup Digikam to save metadata to pictures, sync metadata in the database with metadata in the pictures, and just copy/move pictures I need to /media/disk/Photographs, and sync the database again. This should work. Try with a test image to become confident yourself with the process. regards gerlos -- "Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." G. K. Chesterton <http://gerlos.altervista.org> gerlos +- - - > gnu/linux registred user #311588 _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On 02/19/2011 05:16 AM, gerlos wrote:
> Il giorno 18/feb/2011, alle ore 02.17, John B. Egger ha scritto: > >> I created a ~200-photo album in /home/john/Pictures and added captions, >> tags, and revised creation dates. Earlier, I had copied the same >> photographs to /media/disk/Photographs and had created a few captions >> and tags there. (There's a small digikam4.db file there dated a month >> ago.) Although I worked with the photos in that location a little bit, a >> month ago, but I then did much more extensive work with the >> /home/john/Pictures copy. How do I get the complete set of metadata (in >> /home/john/Pictures/digikam4.db) into /media/disk/Photographs? > So metadata you want (for some picture) is on /home/john/Pictures, and you want to discard metadata stored in /media/disk/Photographs (for the same pictures), right? photos in "Pictures" to the photos in "Photographs," then completely eliminate the /home/john/Pictures folder. > I'd setup Digikam to save metadata to pictures, sync metadata in the database with metadata in the pictures, and just copy/move pictures I need to /media/disk/Photographs, and sync the database again. > > This should work. Try with a test image to become confident yourself with the process. Thanks! Yes, that worked with a test image from another album. What are the disadvantages of writing the metadata to the images? I'm just a family snapshot guy (that's probably obvious from my questions), not a pro like so many in this group, but there must be some advantages to having the metadata in a separate .db file. -- ---John Registered Linux User #291592 Kubuntu Maverick Meerkat, KDE 4.5.1 -- ---John Registered Linux User #291592 Kubuntu Maverick Meerkat, KDE 4.5.1 _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Le 19/02/2011 23:35, John B. Egger a écrit :
> What are the disadvantages of writing the metadata to the images? * copy them to any image user? * may be long if there amre many images * increase the risk for the image file is ever there is a write problem (pretty often on my phone :-() > to having the metadata in a separate .db file. update the meta data on line without transfering all the file(s) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pigeons_music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Il giorno 19/feb/2011, alle ore 23.35, John B. Egger ha scritto: >> I'd setup Digikam to save metadata to pictures, sync metadata in the database with metadata in the pictures, and just copy/move pictures I need to /media/disk/Photographs, and sync the database again. >> >> This should work. Try with a test image to become confident yourself with the process. > Thanks! Yes, that worked with a test image from another album. Good. I'm happy I helped you. > What are the disadvantages of writing the metadata to the images? I'm > just a family snapshot guy (that's probably obvious from my questions), > not a pro like so many in this group, but there must be some advantages > to having the metadata in a separate .db file. Mostly, writing metedata to images is slower, and since needs to modify your saved files (but not RAW ones), if something goes wrong you could lose, it can break your images. If you work locally (no network collections), don't worry, it won't break anything (and anyway, you do periodic backups, don't you? ;-). In several years, I never experienced problems with metadata saved in files. On the other side, saving metadata to files is more reliable (you always have 2 copies of metadata: in the file and in the database, and can while it can happen that the database is broken, it difficult to break hundreds on images), and when you copy or move your images metadata will be still with them. For example, with embedded metadata, when you copy a set of shots from your desktop pc to your laptop, and open them on the laptop, you'll still be able to see any tag and description you saved before when working on your desktop. It is nice that when you upload to Flickr your shot, they read your embedded metadata and don't need to enter your tags again! :-) regards gerlos -- "Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else." < http://gerlos.altervista.org > gerlos +- - - > gnu/linux registred user #311588 _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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