Bug 479758

Summary:	Loss metadata from items.
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	jm7 <jm7>
Component:	Maintenance-Metadata	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	metzpinguin
Priority:	NOR
Version:	8.3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	8.3.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description jm7@acm.org 2024-01-13 18:53:41 UTC

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Unfortunately, I am a bit unclear on how this has happened.  But it may have to do with modifying metadata for  large numbers of images at once.  
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OBSERVED RESULT  
Loss of ALL Metadata tags and GPS information and faces.  I lost all this for 15249 files recently.  (Months worth of work).


EXPECTED RESULT
Loss of data should never occur without explicit direction from the user. 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 11
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Build date: 1/3/2024 11:20 AM (target: RelWithDebInfo)
Revision: 875822f3e66771ed9cb94bb0cf800b6374c4d0f1
Branch: master

Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2024-01-13 18:58:51 UTC

Do you write the metadata generally into the images or only into the database. Do they use sidecars? What type of database are you using?

Maik

Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2024-01-13 19:16:09 UTC

Update your digiKam version immediately, you are using a version in which we did an Exiv2 file path test.
You should not use current developer versions without a backup, in principle errors have actually been fixed. But often we just test things, if they catch such a version, such problems can arise. I therefore recommend asking on the developer mailing list whether version XYZ is currently recommended on https://files.kde.org/digikam/.

Maik