I uploaded a load of photos to my PC today and tagged them all, but when I told digikam to write the metadata to the files the JPEGs don’t contain digikam tags and no xmp files were created.
digikam 8.5.0 and 8.6.0.
Here’s an example file:-
Hopefully the upload won’t change the metadata.
I have not changed digikam settings recently, for metadata it should write to the file and sidecar only digikam tags. Sidecars should be compatible with commercial programs, although changing this didn’t make any difference.
Hi @SteveF48,
Can you check if you have Exiftool enabled for metadata writes?
Settings->Metadata->Behavior tab, then look at the Reading and Writing Metadata section.
Cheers,
Mike
Hi @SteveF48,
As a quick test, disable Exiftool and try writing to an image AND xmp (2 tests). It may be digiKam is having trouble starting Exiftool.
Cheers,
Mike
I will try that, but windows task manager shows Exiftool running.
Hi @SteveF48,
Did you have a chance to run the test with ExifTool turned off? What were the results?
Cheers,
Mike
Hi Mike, sorry for the delay life intruded.
Still no .XMPs since 9th April, whether exiftool is on, or off. Ubuntu appimage writes XMPs, so it’s only Windows 11. Version 8.7.0 on my laptop has an issue, but this isn’t it.
Thanks
Steve
I just had a thought. Help shows the components:-
digiKam: 8.6.0
KDE Frameworks: 6.10.0
Qt: Using 6.8.1 and built against 6.8.1
Windows 11 Version 24H2
Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-llp64
Kernel: winnt 10.0.26120
I wonder if the QT5 version shows this problem?
I’ll download it and let you know.
Steve
No luck QT5 version started, then immediately disappeared from Task Manager.
Will try 8.6.0. with debug on.
Steve
I’ve solved it. For some reason the Embedded Image Information Management page had all of the ‘Write this information to metadata’ options deselected. As soon as I ticked Tags, GeoLocation etc. XMP files appeared when I Wrote Metadata to images.
Thanks again,
Steve
Awesome. I didn’t even think to look at the metadata settings. Nice work!
Cheers,
Mike
