Bug 304202

Summary:	No option to re-read metadata from XMP sidecar file
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	james
Component:	Metadata-Sidecar	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles, grzegorz.adamiak
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.5.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	6.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description james 2012-07-28 18:38:24 UTC

If an XMP sidecar file already exists alongside a photo, digikam will not read it, even if the file was written by (another instance of) digikam itself. It also cannot be forced to read it via a menu option.

This arises in the use case where photos are stored in a Dropbox account: photo metadata saved to an XMP file on one machine, then synced to another machine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set digikam on computer A to write metadata to XMP sidecar file
2. Edit photo metadata.
3. Copy photo and XMP file to computer B.
4. Open photo on computer B.
Actual Results:  
Metadata entered on computer A is not visible.

Expected Results:  
Digikam should show the metadata from the XMP file.

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2012-07-28 19:00:57 UTC

First, update at least to 2.6.0 release where XMP sidecar have been very improved.

In second, go to the bottom of Captions/Tags tab from right sidebar. there is an option to force to re-read metadata from file... 

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2015-07-01 06:05:06 UTC

New digiKam 4.11.0 is available :

https://www.digikam.org/node/740

Can you reproduce the problem with this release ?

Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2015-08-22 06:36:41 UTC

digiKam 4.12.0 is out :

https://www.digikam.org/node/741

We need a fresh feedback using this release please...
Thanks in advance.

Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2016-07-15 21:25:07 UTC

James, 

This file still valid  using last digiKam 5.0.0 ?

Gilles Caulier

Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2017-04-16 20:10:05 UTC

digiKam 5.5.0 is released officially

https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/

...and new 5.6.0 pre-release as bundle is available here :

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM

Please check if this problem still reproducible with these versions.

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2017-06-22 21:39:02 UTC

digiKam 5.6.0 is now release and available as bundle for Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Can you check if problem still exists with this version ?

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2017-11-30 09:30:43 UTC

Please update this entry from bugzilla with current 5.8.0 pre-release bundle to see if problem remain.

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

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

Comment 8 grego 2018-06-27 07:51:35 UTC

In 5.9 rereading metadata form sidecar file works correctly. It reads metadata from darktable for example. I use Item → Reread metadata from image.