Bug 256784

Summary: HUB : handling of picture metadata in case of read-only media as DVD
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: wuselwu <einmaladresse_2>
Component: Metadata-HubAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, rechner
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.5.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description wuselwu 2010-11-13 11:33:42 UTC 
Version:           1.5.0 (using KDE 4.5.3) 
OS:                Linux

If you have read-only files on your harddisk (e.g. because they have been copied from a CD ROM), Digikam obviously can't write to this files.
If you are editing these kind of pics, you will notice that, because digikam issues aa warning. 
But if you are editing only the metadata of the files (geotagging, adjusting timestamps, EXIF rotate etc.), these data will only be written to Digikam's database and not to the original files without any notice to the user. This leads to inconsistencies between the EXIF metadata and Digikam's database, which is especially annoying when also using other programmes or platforms with your photos.
IMHO Digikam should also issue a warning if you change only the metadata of a read-only picture to inform the user that his/her adjustments will not be saved in the picture.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Vlado Plaga 2019-03-03 12:26:24 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 220204 ***