Bug 160229

Summary: Option to preserve file timestamps when updating exif
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: John <kde.e.wuuza>
Component: Setup-MetadataAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, mikmach
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.9.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 7.1.0

Description John 2008-04-01 21:39:48 UTC
Version:           0.9.2 (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Apologies if this is a duplicate or can already be done, but I could not find it in searching.  I like the file date/time stamp to be the date the picture was taken, just to make it easy to see when viewing in Dolphin or any other file manager (on any system).  Currently, if I set digiKam to write the metadata to the EXIF headers, the file timestamp is changed every time metadata is updated.  There is a plugin for "Adjust Date and Time", but that's a manual thing.  I would like to see a global option that would either preserve the timestamp of the file when updating metadata, or an option to always change the file timestamp the EXIF creation date on metadata updates (or both).  I believe exiv2 has the capability to preserve the timestamp.  (Non-metadata updates, such as cropping, should probably update the timestamp.)
Comment 1 Mikolaj Machowski 2008-12-06 21:23:18 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 144215 ***
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2020-08-31 03:18:07 UTC
Fixed with #144215