[digiKam-users] Face Tags Problem

[Mick Sulley]

I have a bunch of 68 pictures with a face tag problem.  The last picture
(they are all named  with date/time) has 6 face tags which are correct,
but the previous 67 pictures all have the same face tags in exactly the
same positions.  These pictures were taken on the same day in September
2016 and would have been tagged shortly after.  Just looking at the
pictures I would have tagged all of them, so whatever the problem is has
erased the original tags and copied the tags from pic 68 to the previous 67.

What can cause this?  I use only Digikam for tagging, nothing else.  I
cannot be certain which version I was running at the time but I
generally upgrade to a new release shortly after it is announced as a
stable release.  I also don't know when the problem occurred, just
happened to notice it today.

I am running on Linux Mint 64 bit.  I have it set to write to sidecar files.

If I open the .xmp file I can see the names of the people which display
in the incorrect tags, but I can also see the names of the people who
are actually in the picture but their tags do not appear, so I must have
tagged them and it was recorded.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour?  Any idea what could cause it?  Is
it possible to recover from it?

Thanks

Mick

[woenx]

Are you sure these other 67 pictures have been really face-tagged, or are
these only suggestions? There are some bugs in the face-tagging process, but
I have never experienced anything like that.

Can you please send a screenshot?



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[Mick Sulley]

Attached screenshot and the .xmp file.  The people in the picture are
Ethan Hood and Charlotte Hood.  Charlotte shows tagged but in the wrong
position, Ethan does not show as tagged but is in the .xmp file.

I can send more examples if it helps

Thanks

Mick

On 16/10/2019 22:10, woenx wrote:

> Are you sure these other 67 pictures have been really face-tagged, or are
> these only suggestions? There are some bugs in the face-tagging process, but
> I have never experienced anything like that.
>
> Can you please send a screenshot?
>
>
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[AndriusWild]

Are you using the latest appimage or the version from Mint repository?

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-------- Original message --------

From: Mick Sulley <[hidden email]>

Date: 2019-10-16 12:46 p.m. (GMT-07:00)

To: DigiKam <[hidden email]>

Subject: [digiKam-users] Face Tags Problem

I have a bunch of 68 pictures with a face tag problem.  The last picture
(they are all named  with date/time) has 6 face tags which are correct,
but the previous 67 pictures all have the same face tags in exactly the
same positions.  These pictures were taken on the same day in September
2016 and would have been tagged shortly after.  Just looking at the
pictures I would have tagged all of them, so whatever the problem is has
erased the original tags and copied the tags from pic 68 to the previous 67.

What can cause this?  I use only Digikam for tagging, nothing else.  I
cannot be certain which version I was running at the time but I
generally upgrade to a new release shortly after it is announced as a
stable release.  I also don't know when the problem occurred, just
happened to notice it today.

I am running on Linux Mint 64 bit.  I have it set to write to sidecar files.

If I open the .xmp file I can see the names of the people which display
in the incorrect tags, but I can also see the names of the people who
are actually in the picture but their tags do not appear, so I must have
tagged them and it was recorded.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour?  Any idea what could cause it?  Is
it possible to recover from it?

Thanks

Mick

[Mick Sulley]

I've been using the latest appimage for quite a while, previously from the repository.  As I said I don't know when this occurred so unfortunately I cannot tell which version I was running then.

On 17/10/2019 02:11, Andrey Goreev wrote:

Are you using the latest appimage or the version from Mint repository?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Mick Sulley [hidden email]

Date: 2019-10-16 12:46 p.m. (GMT-07:00)

To: DigiKam [hidden email]

Subject: [digiKam-users] Face Tags Problem

I have a bunch of 68 pictures with a face tag problem.  The last picture
(they are all named  with date/time) has 6 face tags which are correct,
but the previous 67 pictures all have the same face tags in exactly the
same positions.  These pictures were taken on the same day in September
2016 and would have been tagged shortly after.  Just looking at the
pictures I would have tagged all of them, so whatever the problem is has
erased the original tags and copied the tags from pic 68 to the previous 67.

What can cause this?  I use only Digikam for tagging, nothing else.  I
cannot be certain which version I was running at the time but I
generally upgrade to a new release shortly after it is announced as a
stable release.  I also don't know when the problem occurred, just
happened to notice it today.

I am running on Linux Mint 64 bit.  I have it set to write to sidecar files.

If I open the .xmp file I can see the names of the people which display
in the incorrect tags, but I can also see the names of the people who
are actually in the picture but their tags do not appear, so I must have
tagged them and it was recorded.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour?  Any idea what could cause it?  Is
it possible to recover from it?

Thanks

Mick

[woenx]

Yep, the metadata for these pictures is there. That is weird. I have used the
face tagging capability occasionally, but never happened anything like that
to me.

Btw, in the xmp file, it mentions those two versions of digikam:

"digiKam-4.14.0"
"digiKam-5.1.0"

Although that must have been a long time ago, when you first tagged those
pictures.

I don't know, I think I would just manually remove the wrong faces from that
set of pictures, and hope it doesn't happen again. Maybe a developer has a
better idea of what has happened.





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[Mick Sulley]

Thanks for looking at the problem.  One thing I don't understand is why
the real tags don't show up if they are in the xmp file.

On 17/10/2019 11:28, woenx wrote:

> Yep, the metadata for these pictures is there. That is weird. I have used the
> face tagging capability occasionally, but never happened anything like that
> to me.
>
> Btw, in the xmp file, it mentions those two versions of digikam:
>
> "digiKam-4.14.0"
> "digiKam-5.1.0"
>
> Although that must have been a long time ago, when you first tagged those
> pictures.
>
> I don't know, I think I would just manually remove the wrong faces from that
> set of pictures, and hope it doesn't happen again. Maybe a developer has a
> better idea of what has happened.
>
>
>
>
>
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[woenx]

Have you tried manually re-reading the metadata from the file to the
database? Just in case...



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