Bug 291541

Summary: digiKam seems to be rewriting Metadata even if no change is made.
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Omid <omidlink+bugs.kde.org>
Component: Metadata-HubAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.8.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Omid 2012-01-14 20:12:19 UTC 
Version:           1.2.0 (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

Every time any of the dialog boxs corresponding to the menu items under Image/Metadata is opened and closed, even if no change has been made to the Metadata of the selected pictures, digiKam seems to be writing to disk, a process that is very time consuming if the number of selected pictures is large.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Select a few pictures. Go to Image/Metadata/Edit EXIF or Edit IPTC or Edit XMP. Close the window without making any changes. Notice that the pictures are being updated although no change was made.

Actual Results:  
Metadata seems to be re-written to disk.

Expected Results:  
No writing should be done when no change is made.

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.32-37-generic
Compiler: cc
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2012-01-19 08:18:13 UTC 
Omid,

Please update to 2.5.0 and try again. 1.2.0 is pretty old now...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2017-12-16 14:09:06 UTC 
This problem is not reproducible using current 5.8.0 pre-release bundle
available here :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

I close this file now. Re-open it if necessary.

Gilles Caulier