This section describes the metadata reading and writing process.
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Read Exif, IPTC and XMP from the file.
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Display this "raw" data in the
Exif Window
.
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Read XMP sidecar or Geeqie private metadata file. This data will override the XMP data read from the file.
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Synchronise XMP data with Exif and IPTC data. This process corresponds to the section "Reconciling metadata properties" as described in the
XMP Specification
.
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detect which of Exif and Xmp.exif is newer and copy the data in the appropriate direction
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detect which of IPTC and XMP is newer and copy the data in the appropriate direction
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Use this "processed" data within Geeqie, with the exception of in the
Exif Window
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Metadata is written to a single file or group of files as specified in the
Metadata
tab of main Preferences.
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Modifying the keywords, comment, orientation, etc. does not ask for confirmation, but immediately modifies the metadata in memory and adds the file to "write queue"
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Writing of the queued changes is triggered either
manually
or as defined in
Metadata. It is possible to review the changes and exclude selected files.
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Exif and IPTC are updated from XMP (for example
Exif.Image.Orientation
is updated from
Xmp.exif.orientation
). See
XMP
and
IPTC4XMP
specifications for the list of corresponding tags.
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Try to write metadata in the order specified in the
Metadata writing process
section of Preferences.
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After the first successful write attempt delete old metadata files in all possible locations.
File types with allowed sidecars are listed in the
Files Options
tab of the main Preferences.