Digikam not saving tags to jpg

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I have it set to save tags to file, not just the database, and I’ve tried adding them again using the ‘‘Write metadata to each file’’ Copying the file, the tags do not transfer. R/W permissions are set to Write. I’m not sure what could be wrong.

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@taratears:

First, welcome to the KDE Discuss Forums.

You haven’t mentioned the following in your post –

  1. The platform where you’re executing digiKam.
  2. The digiKam version.

Be that as it may, the following needs to be noted when tagging photographs with digiKam –

  • When tagging a photograph, in the sub-window where the tags are selected for the given photograph, you must press the “Apply” button to assign the tag selection to the photograph being tagged.

  • Once you’ve setup the tags for at least one photograph – you can have a work-flow where multiple photographs are tagged – you may notice that, in the status bar at the bottom of the main window, there’s an innocuous small indicator indicating that at least one photograph has been queued for changes – place the mouse pointer over that indicator and press the left mouse button.
    A batch process will then execute applying the selected tags to the photographs in the work-flow.

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My apologies, its win11 and version 8.3.0

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@taratears:

OK but, on this Linux system –

Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.6
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12
Kernel Version: 6.4.0-150600.23.17-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Memory: 29.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUS

the following happens –

  • The “Apply” button is activated –

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  • There’s this little indicator that a file is awaiting synchronisation – could be many files …

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  • Hover the mouse over the little indicator and, press the left mouse button –

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I have absolutely no idea if, digiKam executing on the thing from Redmond behaves in this way or not –

  • If it doesn’t, then, you’ll have to raise a Bug Report against the ported code of digiKam to the non-Linux system.
    <KDE Bugtracking System>