Following my unsuccessful attempt to correct incorrect timestamps on my pictures and suggestion on How to adjust timestamp on multiple photos? I decided to start from scratch and have overwritten my pictures with messed up ‘modified date’ with untempered images from a backup.
I had all my images in digikam album and had titles, comments (captions) and tags assigned to a fear bit of them (over 1700 photos in total). I did not change file names and I have not edited (except for rotating several images) any of the pictures (no color correction or anything). I was hoping that once I transfer images from the backup digikam will read metadata from the database (SQLite) and reassign to the images as file names are the same, file sizes are the same, etc. but that is not the case.
How can I restore metadate from the database and assign it to the images again?
> How can I restore metadate from the database and assign it to the
> images again?
sorry, i have no idea how to undo what has been done, but i think you
may need a Digikam expert, and if it were me i’d see if i couldn’t find
a digikam forum, maybe someone there knows enough about the db in use to
offer you some help… (this is not actually a problem in any way
associated with openSUSE…i mean, if you were running Debian or
Windows and did what you did you would have the same problem and still
need help with Digikam)…
that is not to say that maybe someone with the detailed knowledge of the
inner workings of Digikam won’t be here before i press Send…we can hope!!
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
RaveNBlack wrote:
> I had all my images in digikam album …
>
> How can I restore metadate from the database and assign it to the
> images again?
I used to use digikam and liked it a lot, even though I don’t run KDE,
but then I had a real nightmare upgrading when I tried to use an
existing picture library into a new version of digikam. I never did
figure out how and as a result I’ve given up using digikam.
So I can only second the idea of finding a specialist digikam forum.
unfortunately, after looking for a solution for over a week, I decided that it will be easier and quicker to do it manually, so I’ve exported the data I need into CSV, created new database and re-tagged my images. Only took me a few hours
On 2011-10-06 16:16, RaveNBlack wrote:
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> unfortunately, after looking for a solution for over a week, I decided
> that it will be easier and quicker to do it manually, so I’ve exported
> the data I need into CSV, created new database and re-tagged my images.
> Only took me a few hours
I don’t know about digikam, but in other programs you can choose to store
the tags in a database, or as exim data on each photo. In the second case,
all programs see them.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)