If you are uploading a picture to a public website, it would be wise to scrub any exif properties - especially if there are GPS exif properties. This post will be an ever growing list of useful exiftool commands and scripts. It is especially useful when you have a lot of pictures to edit and have no desire to change metadata by hand.

Thus far, no changes included within Digikam 8.0.0 seem to resolve my problem.ExifTool by Phil Harvey is a fantastic tool to edit the exif metadata on your pictures. I have confirmed Digikam recognizes exiftool and the version included with the appimage is 12.44.įWIW- I installed Digikam 8.0.0 in a VM running Ubuntu Development Branch (kinetic) and confirmed Digikam recognizes exiftool 12.44. System info I am running Digikam 7.8.0 installed via the KDE provided appimage on PopOS 22.04. I have looked extensively through the Settings -> Configure Digikam -> Metadata tab within Digikam, and while there may be something there I need to adjust, I have not been able to figure this out.

TLDR: Does anyone have any solutions as to how I could configure Digikam to prefer exiftool when reading metadata? I believe Digikam favors exiv2 such that if exiv2 shows no rating, Digikam will show no rating EVEN when exiftool shows the file has a rating assigned. XmpText 1 exiv2 -pa IMG_7559bad.HEIC | grep RatingĮxiv2 does not read the rating properly for IMG_7559bad.HEIC exiv2 -pa IMG_7570good.HEIC | grep Rating Rating : exiftool IMG_7570good.HEIC | grep RatingĮxiftool reads the ratings properly for both files. ('bad' = the file Digikam does not read the rating, 'good' = digikam reads the rating) exiftool IMG_7559bad.HEIC | grep Rating I installed exiftool and exiv2 on my system and figured I would first check that these tools can read the Rating as I am seeing it in Adobe. I copied a few of the files into a test folder to do some tests to understand what is happening. I open the same directory in Digikam and some are rated, some are not. I open a particular directory in Adobe Bridge and all images have ratings. I have noticed an inconsistency in how Digikam reads the metadata from my photos. The vast majority of my photo collection has been rated using the 5 star rating system in Adobe. I am in progress transitioning from Adobe Bridge/LR to Digikam for DAM and some other FOSS for editing.

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