Re: [Shotwell] Any progress on writing metadata back to Nikon NEF files?
- From: Michael Hendry <hendry michael gmail com>
- To: Jim Nelson <jim yorba org>
- Cc: shotwell-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Shotwell] Any progress on writing metadata back to Nikon NEF files?
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 00:17:30 +0100
On 30 Sep 2014, at 21:42, Jim Nelson <jim yorba org> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry michael gmail com> wrote:
I have just read about the sidecar files which are used to attach metadata to RAW files - from a position
of ignorance, it looks to me as if this might be a better way of dealing with the issue.
That's a more likely way we'd go if we were to offer writing RAW metadata.
Do you have a suggestion for how the message would look? "Writing metadata to files (not RAW)" doesn't
read very well.
-- Jim
If you look at my original post, you’ll see that Shotwell claimed to have completed writing metadata to a RAW
file...
L 17293 2014-09-23 11:00:55 [MSG] MetadataWriter.vala:623: Completed writing metadata for [77831]
/home/michaelhendry/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/Home/Pictures/Shotwell Library/2014/09/17/DSC_1969.NEF
…and did this for numerous other NEF files.
Not everyone is going to read a log file, but it might as well be accurate!
What I’d suggest is that when the user switches on the writing of metadata for the first time, a warning
should come up “Metadata will not be written to RAW files, only to JPGs - Proceed anyway? Yes ~ No”, or
similar.
“Writing metadata to files (where possible)…” would also indicate that this doesn’t work for all files.
On a more general note, wherever possible I use software that doesn’t lock me in by handling data in a
specific way. If all my image files were self-sufficient in the sense that they carried all the metadata I’d
ascribed to them in Shotwell, then I could be confident the I would be able (for example) to split my library
of images into several independent libraries, administered by Shotwell or by any other program that could
read the metadata.
Michael
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