Created attachment 118850 [details] Sample file SUMMARY The attached file contains a tag "r4", which is visible in Windows Explorer, Exiftool, Irfanview, Picasa, but not in digiKam. Also, after adding a tag externally, digiKam refreshes and "Photograph Properties" disappear. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Load file into digiKam => Tag "r4" is not shown in "Properties" page on the right side. 2. In Windows Explorer, add a Tag "r5" after "r4" => Properties in digiKam refresh automatically. Tags r4 and r5 are now shown. However, "Photograph Properties" disappear. 3. In Windows Explorer, remove Tag "r5". => This time, digiKam does not refresh. 3. In Windows Explorer, rename file to DSC06938a.jpg. => digiKam refreshes. "Photograph Properties" are visible again, as is tag r4. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: Win7 32bit ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I have the same behavior with all my files; the attached is just a sample. Might be interesting to know that the other tags were exported from Lightroom, while the tag "r4" was added later using exiftool.
Your keyword is included in "Iptc.Application2.Keywords" though not in "Xmp.dc.subject". This behavior you can set in the digiKam-> Settings-> Metadata-> Advanced and there Iptc.Application2.Keywords move higher. Programs store tags in different metadata fields. You have to tell digiKam which one to import. Exiftool: Keywords : 2018 06 Schottland, Kelpies, Lightroom43, r4 Subject : 2018 06 Schottland, Kelpies, Lightroom43 Maik
Maik, Thanks, that solved the main issue. I have never used "Subject" and wasn't even aware that Lightroom writes this tag. To add to the confusion, what Windows Explorer shows seems to be neither "Keywords" nor "Subject" but the union of the two... The second issue, disappearing "Photograph Properties", remains, and can be reproduced as follows: - Mark a picture in digiKam. - Add a tag to this picture in Windows Explorer. => Tags are refreshed in digiKam, but Photograph Properies disappear until restart of digiKam. Also, I have experienced issues with the tag character set. Being German, I use umlauts in my tags, and depending on the software I created them with, they are or are not correctly displayed in digiKam. Which character set do you use for keywords? Best regards, Harald
I can not reproduce the problem, the photo properties do not disappear here (Windows10 VM). The "Rescan file when files are modified" meta data option should be active if many files are changed externally. There is a limitation under Windows. We monitor directory changes. This will detect when the file name or file size changes and files are deleted or added. When changing tags in Explorer it is possible that the file size does not change-> so digiKam will not be notified. Maik
Created attachment 118934 [details] Disappearing "Photograph Properties" Maik, Well, if you can't reproduce the problem, it's difficult. Nonetheless, attached a screenshot of what it looks like after adding a tag outside of digiKam. For this picture (and only for this picture), it remains like that until I restart digiKam. Regarding refreshing (I know, this was a different issue): Album / Reread Metadata is still very slow (about 1.5 seconds per picture in the album), so its practical use is limited. I wanted to suggest to add a context menu option for "Reread Metadata" for individual pictures but found that it's already there in the Captions panel / More. And it can be configured as being part of the toolbar. Ok. Which brings me back to this issue: Whenever I do a "Reread Metadata from File" on a picture, "Photograph Properties" are gone afterwards for this picture. Maybe you can reproduce that? Finally, the "issues with the character set" I hinted at earlier turned out to be not a bug in digiKam but in IrfanView that, through all the years I've been using IrfanView, I had never encountered. An update of IrfanView fixed that. Thanks for your continued support, and best regards, Harald
Just to be more precise in my previous comment: "Reread Metadata from File" makes the "Photograph Properites" disappear, no matter whether or not I have changed a tag outside of digiKam. Best regards Harald
Git commit 976eea223a9a90315c4312803f53541d22cb8d12 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 20/03/2019 at 20:44. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. fix re-read image and video metadata if database cleanup option is enabled FIXED-IN: 6.1.0 M +2 -1 NEWS M +6 -4 core/libs/database/item/containers/iteminfocache.cpp https://commits.kde.org/digikam/976eea223a9a90315c4312803f53541d22cb8d12