https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497508
Bug ID: 497508
Summary: data loss: metadata not saved despite enabling in 1st
launch wizard
Classification: Applications
Product: digikam
Version: 8.5.0
Platform: Flatpak
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Metadata-Gps
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
On a fresh install at first startup the configuration wizard asks if metadata
should be written back to the picture files. But even if this is enabled,
important metadata is silently left out: faces and geotags. This is not obvious
at all and I only discovered this misbehavior some time ago when I went looking
for an explanation in the proper Settings dialog. Sure enough, faces and
geotags are excluded from being written to the pictures in the Settings dialog,
contrary to the setting in the setup wizard!
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start digikam, enable writing metadata to pictures
2. Do some tagging of faces and geolocations
3. Metadata is NOT written to the files on disk
EXPECTED RESULT
If I configure metadata to be written back to the files I expect that digikam
respects that choice and does not silently ignore my wishes, resulting in data
loss (if I backup my files, believing them to be self-contained). If there are
technical reasons for this behavior then the wizard must be changed to make it
clear that the setting does not in fact apply to all metadata, even though
digikam is perfectly capable of writing that data back to the picture files.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu 24.04, digikam 8.5.0 from flatpak
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