On a smb mounted photo collection, the .xmp files created by digikam are empty. I looked at the logs and found some errors, here is a sample of them when digikam saves the metadata on one image (I masked personal info) : digikam.metaengine: "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=cachalot,share=photo/2005/album/p4250038.jpg" ==> Title: QMap() digikam.metaengine: "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=cachalot,share=photo/2005/album/p4250038.jpg" ==> Comment: QMap() digikam.metaengine: "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=cachalot,share=photo/2005/album/p4250038.jpg" ==> Pick Label: 0 digikam.metaengine: "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=cachalot,share=photo/2005/album/p4250038.jpg" ==> Color Label: 0 digikam.metaengine: Rating value to write is out of range! digikam.general: Writting tags digikam.general: -------------------------- New Keywords ("de Vienne Christophe", "Odile Garnier", "Pris par Nathalie", "75 ans Mamie", "Amillis", "de Vienne Nathalie") digikam.metaengine: xmlACDSee "<Categories><Category Assigned=\"0\">Personnes<Category Assigned=\"0\">Famille<Category Assigned=\"0\"> [ hidden categories ]" digikam.metaengine: "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=cachalot,share=photo/2005/album/p4250038.jpg" ==> Read Iptc Keywords: () digikam.metaengine: "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=cachalot,share=photo/2005/album/p4250038.jpg" ==> New Iptc Keywords: ( [ hidden keywords ]) digikam.metaengine: MetaEngine::metadataWritingMode 1 digikam.metaengine: Will write XMP sidecar for file "p4250038.jpg" digikam.general: Detected change, triggering rescan of "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=cachalot,share=photo/2005/album/" digikam.metaengine: Cannot save metadata to XMP sidecar using Exiv2 (Error # 13 : Image type 10 is not supported I had the same issue with digikam 5.6.0 (from the ubuntu repo) and digikam 5.9.0 (from the download page), on a ubuntu 18.04.
Strange, the error message states that Exiv2 does not know the type Exiv2::ImageType::xmp. Exiv2 without XMP support? Can you please post the component info from the Help menu? DigiKam from the download page, from www.digikam.org? Did you also test the AppImage? Maik
Maik, Exiv2 XMP support is optional, due to license of XMP SDK from Adobe. The state of XMP support can be show in Help/Components Info dialog. The Linux AppImage that we provide with Exiv2 0.26 is compiled, of course, with XMP SDK... Gilles
I have the issue with the appimage too. Here is my component informations: digikam version 5.9.0 CPU cores: 8 Eigen: 3.2.5 Exiv2: 0.26 Exiv2 can write to Jp2: Oui Exiv2 can write to Jpeg: Oui Exiv2 can write to Pgf: Oui Exiv2 can write to Png: Oui Exiv2 can write to Tiff: Oui Exiv2 supports XMP metadata: Oui KF5: 5.42.0 LensFun: 0.3.2-0 LibCImg: 130 LibJPEG: 80 LibJasper: 1.900.29 LibLCMS: 2080 LibLqr support: Non LibPGF: 7.15.32 LibPNG: 1.6.34 LibRaw: 0.18.8 LibTIFF: 4.0.9 Marble: 0.27.20 Parallelized demosaicing: Oui Qt: 5.9.3 Gestion du lecteur de média: Oui LibGphoto2: 2.5.16 LibKipi: 5.2.0 LibOpenCV: 3.4.0 LibQtAV: 1.12.0 Modules externes KIPI: Moteur de base de données: QSQLITE Prise en charge de AkonadiContact: non Prise en charge de Baloo: non Prise en charge de DBus: Oui Prise en charge de la galerie HTML: oui Prise en charge du Calendrier: oui Prise en charge du Panorama: oui
Note that I have the problem only on the samba share (mounted with gvfs). On a local collection, the xmp file is properly written.
I've found clues on the web that GVFS has probleme with simultaneous reading / writing of files. Possible that Exiv2 files in R/W mode opens. https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-62096 Maik
digiKam 7.0.0 stable release is now published: https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/ We need a fresh feedback on this file using this version. Best Regards Gilles Caulier
@Christophe digiKam 8.0.0 is out. This entry still valid with this release ? Best regards Gilles Caulier
Maik, Perhaps with Exiv2 0.28 this problem will disappear... @Christophe de Vienne digiKam 8.1.0 pre-release AppImage bundle is now ported to Exiv2 0.28 which come with a huge list of bugfixes : https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/2406#issuecomment-1529139799 AppImage file is available here : https://files.kde.org/digikam/ How to use AppImage under Linux : https://docs.digikam.org/en/getting_started/installation.html#digikam-on-linux Thanks in advance for your feedback Gilles Caulier
Christophe, What's about this file using current 8.2.0 AppImage Linux bundle ? It's reproducible ? https://files.kde.org/digikam/ Note: bundle is now based on Qt 5.15.11 and KDE framework 5.110. Thanks in advance Gilles Caulier
Git commit 7f900c7221e3c7977369527b21f56261614a95e1 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 29/10/2023 at 08:41. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. use QIODevice to read and write files with Exiv2 Related: bug 338462, bug 446363, bug 398582 FIXED-IN: 8.2.0 M +3 -3 NEWS M +14 -8 core/libs/metadataengine/engine/metaengine_comments.cpp M +14 -8 core/libs/metadataengine/engine/metaengine_exif.cpp M +28 -18 core/libs/metadataengine/engine/metaengine_fileio.cpp M +14 -8 core/libs/metadataengine/engine/metaengine_iptc.cpp M +112 -43 core/libs/metadataengine/engine/metaengine_p.cpp M +14 -8 core/libs/metadataengine/engine/metaengine_previews.cpp M +15 -8 core/libs/metadataengine/engine/metaengine_xmp.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/7f900c7221e3c7977369527b21f56261614a95e1