Re: Problem with tags & metadata files (IPTC)

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

Do a 

  strings <filename> | more 

and see if you see the tags

Bengt

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:18 -0400, Marco Laverdière wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> Using Jbrout, Digikam or Gnome Commander, the previous tags (that were
> done with Digikam) are visible (so there's a "tag" or "keyword" field
> in one form or the other) but the newly modified/added tags done with
> F-Spot are just not there.
> 
> Since Nautilus can show correctly F-Spot tags, would it be possible
> that Nautilus & F-Spot are relying on some different method/version of
> IPTC (or wathever else) for tagging?
> 
> By the way, I'm on Ubuntu Hardy.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> 
> 2008/6/4 Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net>:
> 
> 
>         On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 10:27 -0400, Marco Laverdière wrote:
>         > Now, as a real parano, I've checked with an other photo
>         manager, i.e.
>         > Jbrout.  I have imported the same files that were reported
>         to be well
>         > tagged with Nautilus and, oh surprise, all the retagging
>         work done
>         > with F-Spot appeared to be lost (all the previous tags were
>         OK).  I've
>         > tried to import the same files with Digikam and got the same
>         result.
>         > I've looked at files properties with Gnome Commander (which
>         support
>         > IPTC), and then again, got the same result, i.e. F-Spot
>         tagging work
>         > was lost.
>         >
>         >
>         > I've quickly looked in Bugzilla, but found nothing on this
>         topic.
>         > Obviously, there's something I'm missing.
>         >
>         
>         
>         What is important to know is what these software are using for
>         storing
>         the tags.
>         
>         Is the tagging gone, or just not visible in these?
>         
>         
>         Hub
>         
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Bengt Thuree
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