Bug 169685

Summary: tags lost on copy via context menu
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: erik.heckers
Component: Usability-MenusAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.9.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 1.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description erik.heckers 2008-08-23 21:44:45 UTC 
Version:           0.9.3 (using KDE 3.5.9)
Compiler:          gcc 4.2.3 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I'm using tag support Digikam, tags are not
stored inside the pictures (e.g. IPTC)

When moving or copying images from one album to another one using Drag&Drop the tags are 
correctly moved or copied together with the image.

But when using the context menu to copy an image, the tags are lost.

How to reproduce:
Open (thumbnail view) of an album, select a picture and from context menu choose "Copy".
Go to another album and from context menu choose "Paste". Picture is copied but tags are not.

Workaround: Use Drag&Drop only.

Another workaround might be to store tags also in IPTC, but as I currently do not want to touch the pictures I didn't test that one ...
Comment 1 Andi Clemens 2008-08-23 21:55:35 UTC 
I tried to reproduce the error but right now I can't, because I'm not able to remove IPTC metadata anymore.

Gilles,
can you confirm this? (image->Metadata->Remove IPTC...)
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2009-07-11 11:09:30 UTC 
yes, i can. I use libkexiv2 from trunk

Gilles
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2009-07-20 11:19:35 UTC 
For me i can reproduce the problem here with current implementation from svn. Andi, can you confirm ?

Gilles
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2009-07-20 12:42:39 UTC 
Andi, i want mean, i CAN'T reproduce...

Gilles
Comment 5 Andi Clemens 2009-07-20 13:07:45 UTC 
I CAN'T (:-)) confirm this either.
I removed XMP and IPTC, I turned off metadata writing, I used the context menu to copy and paste the image into another folder-> tag is still there.
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2009-07-20 13:23:36 UTC 
Ok. I close this file then...

Gilles Caulier