No more metadata support in import?

[Andreas Mair-2]

Hi,

for a long time (at least since v3.5.0) accessing metadata by using
"[meta:Exif...]" in import doesn't work correctly.
Now I've updated from v4.4.0 to v4.12.0 but now even the "Metadata"
button in the "import" window is missing and the resulting file names
show the "[meta:Exif...]" text.
For me it seems that this feature has been dropped. Is this right?
Why? Or am I doing something wrong?
If I use the file name template in the "renamer" tool everything works
as expected.

What metadata do I want to use?
I simply want to get the date and time when the picture has been
taken. So I use "[meta:Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal]". You could say I
can also use "[date:...]". That's right. But actually I am (or had
been) not sure what timestamp digiKam actually uses then.
But with my new camera "[date:...]" won't be enough as it also has
"[meta:Exif.Photo.SubSecTimeOriginal]". When doing some quickshots
this value is needed because I have multiple photos per second.

Best regards,
Andreas
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[Maik Qualmann]

Yes, the feature is disabled at the moment. She worked only with non GPhoto2
devices and makes the real time renaming in the icon view very slow. Let's
see, maybe I can return it back for digiKam 4.14.

Maik

Am Sonntag, 13. September 2015, 08:11:05 schrieb Andreas Mair:

> Hi,
>
> for a long time (at least since v3.5.0) accessing metadata by using
> "[meta:Exif...]" in import doesn't work correctly.
> Now I've updated from v4.4.0 to v4.12.0 but now even the "Metadata"
> button in the "import" window is missing and the resulting file names
> show the "[meta:Exif...]" text.
> For me it seems that this feature has been dropped. Is this right?
> Why? Or am I doing something wrong?
> If I use the file name template in the "renamer" tool everything works
> as expected.
>
> What metadata do I want to use?
> I simply want to get the date and time when the picture has been
> taken. So I use "[meta:Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal]". You could say I
> can also use "[date:...]". That's right. But actually I am (or had
> been) not sure what timestamp digiKam actually uses then.
> But with my new camera "[date:...]" won't be enough as it also has
> "[meta:Exif.Photo.SubSecTimeOriginal]". When doing some quickshots
> this value is needed because I have multiple photos per second.
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
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[Andreas Mair-2]

OK, thanks for the information.

Regards,
Andreas

2015-09-13 11:57 GMT+02:00 Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]>:

> Yes, the feature is disabled at the moment. She worked only with non GPhoto2
> devices and makes the real time renaming in the icon view very slow. Let's
> see, maybe I can return it back for digiKam 4.14.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Sonntag, 13. September 2015, 08:11:05 schrieb Andreas Mair:
>> Hi,
>>
>> for a long time (at least since v3.5.0) accessing metadata by using
>> "[meta:Exif...]" in import doesn't work correctly.
>> Now I've updated from v4.4.0 to v4.12.0 but now even the "Metadata"
>> button in the "import" window is missing and the resulting file names
>> show the "[meta:Exif...]" text.
>> For me it seems that this feature has been dropped. Is this right?
>> Why? Or am I doing something wrong?
>> If I use the file name template in the "renamer" tool everything works
>> as expected.
>>
>> What metadata do I want to use?
>> I simply want to get the date and time when the picture has been
>> taken. So I use "[meta:Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal]". You could say I
>> can also use "[date:...]". That's right. But actually I am (or had
>> been) not sure what timestamp digiKam actually uses then.
>> But with my new camera "[date:...]" won't be enough as it also has
>> "[meta:Exif.Photo.SubSecTimeOriginal]". When doing some quickshots
>> this value is needed because I have multiple photos per second.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andreas
>> _______________________________________________
>> Digikam-users mailing list
>> [hidden email]
>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
>
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[Rei Shinozuka]

I am a Big--no make that Huge--fan of digiKam, the community and the
amazing work Gilles tirelessly performs on behalf of the user base.

I have a question about migrating a relatively large collection of
images.  I have approximately 1 TB of images under digiKam on a NAS ,
mounted

     /data/nas1 (filesystem hosted on NAS device nas1)

which I'd like to move to a new device with a new mountpoint to

     /data/nas2 (filesystem hosts on NAS device nas2)

The .digikam SQLite 3.x database is on a local disk, because I last read
(and this was 5 years ago) that because of file locking protocols you
shouldn't keep it on a NAS device.  (If possible it would be great to
keep it on the NAS).

I know I can rsync the image data (album directories, jpg and raw files)
from nas1 to nas2 and then have digikam rebuild the database, but I'd
lose the metadata (thumbnails, notes, ratings).  It's not a dealbreaker,
but with 12 years of history and a terabyte of images it would be nice
to keep that metadata.

What would be the official recommended method of moving from nas1 to
nas2 to preserve metadata in the .digikam file?  Or alternatively a
method to extract from the old .digikam file into the new one?

thanks!

-rei

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