Bug 141960

Summary: Problems with photos without EXIF data when updating metadata of all photos
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: krienke
Component: Metadata-ExifAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.9.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 0.9.5
Sentry Crash Report:

Description krienke 2007-02-20 07:52:31 UTC
Version:           0.9.1-rc1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          gcc 4.1.2 
OS:                Linux

I selected menu "Tools->Sync all pictures metadata" to synchronize all the metadata that are in the database with the metadata that are in the photo files.

For most of the photos this workes fine. However I had some JPG photo files that do not have any metadata in them (probably removed by another tool). However I had tags set on them and I chose to store the tags in the files IPTC metadata. After the synchronisation the photo still did not have metadata and there was no warning that the sync process did not work for this photo.

So the problem is, that the tags set on the photo were not stored inside the photos metadata and there was no warning that this could not be done.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2007-02-20 07:57:33 UTC
krienke,

start digiKAm from a console and try to reproduce the problem. Look if some error messages appears on the console, especialy from Exiv2 library.

Note than digiKam must be compiled using "./configure --enable-debug=full" option

Gilles
Comment 2 krienke 2007-02-20 08:22:57 UTC
Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2007 07:57:34 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
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> start digiKAm from a console and try to reproduce the problem. Look if some
> error messages appears on the console, especialy from Exiv2 library.


I can see the problem now. The file in question had only read access 
(r-- --- ---) and digikam could not write to this file. What would be needed 
in this case is a warning about the problem. 

After I added write access to the file everything was fine.

Rainer
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2008-12-04 21:04:39 UTC
krienke,

What's news about this report ? It still valid using digiKam 0.9.4 ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 4 krienke 2008-12-05 08:47:10 UTC
Hi Gilles,

I just tried with the 0.9.4 and here it works. So this bug report can be closed.

Thanks
Rainer