Bug 391544

Summary: Metadata not written to image after renaming Tag
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: MarcP <iwannaberich>
Component: Maintenance-MetadataAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.9.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 7.0.0
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Description MarcP 2018-03-07 21:05:24 UTC 
Possibly not a bug, but when a tag is renamed or when a tag hierarchy is changed, no changes are written to the images, despite Digikam showing these changes in the interface.

Clicking on "Item -> Write metadata to selected images" is required to actually save those changes.

Maybe a duplicate of bug #200162 ?

If this is on purpose, there should be some warning that this information must be manually synchronized with the database. If it is not, this is inconsistent with other metadata edits, which are written immediately to the file.

A possible alternative would be warning the user of how many pictures will be affected by this change (e.g. "Renaming this Tag will change metadata in 1234 files, is that ok?").

Either way, I feel the user should be warned, as it can lead to inconsistencies in the tag structure.
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2018-03-07 21:26:23 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 370245 ***
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2020-01-19 09:49:42 UTC 
Fixed with bug #370245