[digiKam-users] Finding and selecting a whole bunch of unrelated photos

[digikam-2]

DK 7.1.0 appimage on Manjaro.

I'm helping an "old friend" (in his 70s). He has about 20,000 images.
He needs them organized, tagged, titled and captioned. I want to use
DK for doing the job.

I will be setting things up for him on his laptop (opensuse).

I want to select the images that he already has uploaded to facebook.
I have the list (1000+ images) from his feed.

Is there a way to batch process the adding of the tag : "uploaded |
facebook" from the list without have to do it one at the time (find
filename => tag)?

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[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 27 décembre 2020 17:56:15 CET [hidden email] wrote:

> DK 7.1.0 appimage on Manjaro.
>
> I'm helping an "old friend" (in his 70s). He has about 20,000 images.
> He needs them organized, tagged, titled and captioned. I want to use
> DK for doing the job.
>
> I will be setting things up for him on his laptop (opensuse).
>
> I want to select the images that he already has uploaded to facebook.
> I have the list (1000+ images) from his feed.
>
> Is there a way to batch process the adding of the tag : "uploaded |
> facebook" from the list without have to do it one at the time (find
> filename => tag)?

From within digikam, I don't think so.

Otherwise, if they are jpg images or you have sidecars, it might be possible
through a script, using exiftool or exiv2. Easiest if the list has one name
per line.

[digikam-2]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:31:04 +0100
Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On dimanche 27 décembre 2020 17:56:15 CET [hidden email]
> wrote:
> > DK 7.1.0 appimage on Manjaro.
> >
> > I'm helping an "old friend" (in his 70s). He has about 20,000
> > images. He needs them organized, tagged, titled and captioned. I
> > want to use DK for doing the job.
> >
> > I will be setting things up for him on his laptop (opensuse).
> >
> > I want to select the images that he already has uploaded to
> > facebook. I have the list (1000+ images) from his feed.
> >
> > Is there a way to batch process the adding of the tag : "uploaded
> > | facebook" from the list without have to do it one at the time
> > (find filename => tag)?  
> From within digikam, I don't think so.
>
> Otherwise, if they are jpg images or you have sidecars, it might be
> possible through a script, using exiftool or exiv2. Easiest if the
> list has one name per line.

I already have the list as a 1 image per line.

Thanks. I didn't think of exiftool to update the xmp files.

How do I get DK to re-read the changed XMP files?



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sknahT

vyS

[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 27 décembre 2020 18:38:33 CET [hidden email] wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:31:04 +0100
>
> Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > On dimanche 27 décembre 2020 17:56:15 CET [hidden email]
> >
> > wrote:
> > > DK 7.1.0 appimage on Manjaro.
> > >
> > > I'm helping an "old friend" (in his 70s). He has about 20,000
> > > images. He needs them organized, tagged, titled and captioned. I
> > > want to use DK for doing the job.
> > >
> > > I will be setting things up for him on his laptop (opensuse).
> > >
> > > I want to select the images that he already has uploaded to
> > > facebook. I have the list (1000+ images) from his feed.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to batch process the adding of the tag : "uploaded
> > >
> > > | facebook" from the list without have to do it one at the time
> > >
> > > (find filename => tag)?
> >
> > From within digikam, I don't think so.
> >
> > Otherwise, if they are jpg images or you have sidecars, it might be
> > possible through a script, using exiftool or exiv2. Easiest if the
> > list has one name per line.
>
> I already have the list as a 1 image per line.
>
> Thanks. I didn't think of exiftool to update the xmp files.
>
> How do I get DK to re-read the changed XMP files?

Select them and reread metadata. It shouldn't be a problem to reload more than
the strict minimum, but if you'd have to load all 20k, it will take some
time...

Otherwise, if the facebook files are already in one or two directories, you
can select multiple files and update tags for all of them (just add the tag
with the active selection)

[digikam-2]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 19:18:53 +0100
Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:


> Select them and reread metadata. It shouldn't be a problem to
> reload more than the strict minimum, but if you'd have to load all
> 20k, it will take some time...
>
> Otherwise, if the facebook files are already in one or two
> directories, you can select multiple files and update tags for all
> of them (just add the tag with the active selection)

Just to confirm: Tools > Maintenance  > Sync metadata & db: from
image meta to db?

Thanks

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sknahT

vyS

[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 27 décembre 2020 20:48:07 CET [hidden email] wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 19:18:53 +0100
>
> Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Select them and reread metadata. It shouldn't be a problem to
> > reload more than the strict minimum, but if you'd have to load all
> > 20k, it will take some time...
> >
> > Otherwise, if the facebook files are already in one or two
> > directories, you can select multiple files and update tags for all
> > of them (just add the tag with the active selection)
>
> Just to confirm: Tools > Maintenance  > Sync metadata & db: from
> image meta to db?
>
> Thanks

That should work as well, I do that kind of thing for groups of up to 50
images or so, so the maintenance tool is a bit overkill for me.

Remco