SUMMARY Metadata side viewers (iptc, xmp, exiftool, ...) are not updated when you do Item/Re-read metadata from a file which has been modified externally after Digikam startup. You need to select another picture and then back to the modified one. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. open Digikam, select a picture and open the metadata side xmp viewer 2. modify/add an xmp field of the picture with exiftool command line 3. do Item/'Re-read metadata from file' on the selected picture OBSERVED RESULT There is no change on the metadata side xmp viewer panel.
Pressing F5 must do the job. There is also a disk changes observer configurable on Collection settings. It must be disabled on your computer. https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html
> Pressing F5 must do the job. I was not searching solutions, they are obvious, I wanted just to notice a cosmetic bug : one expects 're-read metadata from file' updates the metadata viewer. Feel free to fix it or not, of course.
Git commit eea0a779898ff74eb2915a3d85737bc1aa85a0b0 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 12/02/2024 at 21:36. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. update metadata tab via image changeset relaxed FIXED-IN: 8.3.0 M +1 -1 NEWS M +34 -4 core/libs/properties/itempropertiessidebardb.cpp M +11 -8 core/libs/properties/itempropertiessidebardb.h https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/eea0a779898ff74eb2915a3d85737bc1aa85a0b0
Git commit 3303c40502df47ce6122c783b693cb09985c332f by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 13/02/2024 at 07:42. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. simplify metadata tab updating M +14 -24 core/libs/properties/itempropertiessidebardb.cpp M +0 -1 core/libs/properties/itempropertiessidebardb.h https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/3303c40502df47ce6122c783b693cb09985c332f