Re: Problem with tags & metadata files (IPTC)

[Mychkine <mychkine gmx com>]

hi Marco,

Maybe you could try with exiv2 (command line tool) to check your tags:
exiv2 photo -> info exif
exiv2 -px photo-> info xmp
exiv2 -pi photo -> info iptc

i think Fspot stores the data in xmp. This is an exemple:

exiv2 -px P1000425.JPG
Xmp.dc.subject                               XmpBag      4  Grenoble 
03/08, Kolja, Patinoire, Grenoble
Xmp.xmp.Rating                               XmpText     1  0

my 4 tags in this picture are in XmpBag.


cheers

Laurent


Marco Laverdière a écrit :
> Hi to all,
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> I'm lost.  Here's my story:
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> I have imported 5GB of jpg tagged pictures in F-Spot without any 
> problem.  All the tags have been imported successfully.
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> Now, in F-Spot, I've done some more tagging, making sure first that 
> the "write to file metadata" box was checked within F-Spot 
> preferences.  Each time I've added or modified a tag for many 
> pictures, I could see the hard-disk working, as F-Spot was obviously 
> retagging pictures (well, that's what I thought...).
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> At one point, as a well known parano, I wanted to make sure that all 
> my tagging work within F-Spot was giving the result I was looking for, 
> i.e. making sure that tags were added/modified within the 
> correspondent metadata files.  I've check some file properties with 
> Nautilus, and everything was OK, i.e. tags were added/modified as 
> keywords metadata.
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> 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.
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> I've quickly looked in Bugzilla, but found nothing on this topic.  
> Obviously, there's something I'm missing.
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> Can someone help me to understand what's going on and, above all, help 
> me to understand how can I properly use F-Spot to tag my pictures, 
> making sure that tags are save as metadata keywords?
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> Thanks.
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> Marco Laverdière
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