Returning to Digikam, a couple of questions about metadata etc.

[Chris Green]

I'm returning to using Digikam after quite a long absence.  I have
just installed Digikam 3.4.0 on my xubuntu 13.10 desktop machine.

My questions concern tags and other data (like title and caption).

Digikam seems to have found the existing data in my pictures and has
put it in its database.  That's fine.  However does Digikam keep data
in the picture files in step with what's in the its database from now
on?

I.e. if I change the caption on a picture using Digikam will it also
change the caption in the corresponding picture file?

There used to be preference/configuration settings that set whether
this happened or not but I can't seem to see them now.

I want everything I change in Digikam to also be changed in the
picture files, unless I explicitly say otherwise.  So if Digikam
disappears off the face of the earth (heaven forbid) I will still have
all the changes I've laboriously done to captions, tags, etc.

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[Bast!]

Menu Settings
  /Configure Digikam
    /Metadata (icon list on the left side)
      /Behavior (tab on top)
        /Reading and Writing Metadata
That is where you can set it to write do XMP files next to the original
files or write them to into the image itself.

There is also the export option.
Menu Tools
  /Maintenance
    /Sync Metadata and database
Chose from database to image metadata.

Have fun
Bast!

Am 21.04.2014 20:16, schrieb [hidden email]:

> I'm returning to using Digikam after quite a long absence.  I have
> just installed Digikam 3.4.0 on my xubuntu 13.10 desktop machine.
>
> My questions concern tags and other data (like title and caption).
>
> Digikam seems to have found the existing data in my pictures and has
> put it in its database.  That's fine.  However does Digikam keep data
> in the picture files in step with what's in the its database from now
> on?
>
> I.e. if I change the caption on a picture using Digikam will it also
> change the caption in the corresponding picture file?
>
> There used to be preference/configuration settings that set whether
> this happened or not but I can't seem to see them now.
>
> I want everything I change in Digikam to also be changed in the
> picture files, unless I explicitly say otherwise.  So if Digikam
> disappears off the face of the earth (heaven forbid) I will still have
> all the changes I've laboriously done to captions, tags, etc.
>

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[Andrew Goodbody]

On 21/04/14 19:16, [hidden email] wrote:
> There used to be preference/configuration settings that set whether
> this happened or not but I can't seem to see them now.

Settings -> Configure digiKam -> Metadata -> Behaviour

That screen controls what is written to the image metadata, it's not
just an on or off.

HTH,
Andrew
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[Chris Green]

Bast! <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Menu Settings
>   /Configure Digikam
>     /Metadata (icon list on the left side)
>       /Behavior (tab on top)
>         /Reading and Writing Metadata
> That is where you can set it to write do XMP files next to the original
> files or write them to into the image itself.
>
Thank you, that sounds like what I'm looking for, I obviously didn't
dig hard enough.


> There is also the export option.
> Menu Tools
>   /Maintenance
>     /Sync Metadata and database
> Chose from database to image metadata.
>
That's useful too, so I can synchronise changes either way.

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