Bug 210211

Summary:	Digikam doesn't update metadata of files already in database, sync only writes db->file not db<->file
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Dahaniel <dm>
Component:	Database-Scan	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	caulier.gilles, dm
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	1.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Dahaniel 2009-10-11 17:19:09 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

When updating tags with another program (Picasa in my case) these new tags are lost because Digikam doesn't update them. 
Hitting "refresh album" has no effect and on "sync images with database" the new tags get lost because Digikam is not syncing but writing tags from database to file. 

Sync should work in both directions: db<->file and not db->file as it does now.


However, the metadata sidebar shows tags from file but these are not searchable and don't show up below pictures (as they are not in the database)

Comment 1 Dahaniel 2009-10-11 17:20:50 UTC

Digikam Version is 1.0.0Beta3, I couldn't specify this in the BugWizard

Comment 2 Marcel Wiesweg 2009-10-11 17:51:14 UTC

In recent code there is a menu entry "Reread metadata from images" which does what you require here.

Comment 3 Marcel Wiesweg 2009-12-19 16:11:21 UTC

Names of actions have been made more precise, as already said above.