Set configure metadata for example to write descriptiona and title to files and no to write keywords/tags. Now browse to some writeable image. Change keyword - file is altered (file size chages). This should not be happening. If there is no change in metadata which is selected for synchronize, there is no need to change anything in file, It only makes tagging of multiple images very slow and also fault prone. Only viable workaround now is not to write any metadata to files.
Git commit 1bed267f25fae9c15730c4df1fe240fbf6c157df by Marcel Wiesweg. Committed on 06/07/2012 at 19:53. Pushed by mwiesweg into branch 'master'. When applying right-sidebar changes, only write to metadata if actually indicated by the changes M +2 -1 NEWS M +8 -3 digikam/fileaction/databaseworkeriface.cpp http://commits.kde.org/digikam/1bed267f25fae9c15730c4df1fe240fbf6c157df