I'm attempting to migrate tags/categories from ACDSee to Digikam. In ACDSee I'm able to write (ACDSee's) Categories to EXIF:UserComment. I'd like to follow that up with an exiftool command to copy or move those so Digikam sees them as Tags.
To determine what Digikam needs for that to happen, I tagged an image within Digikam with two tags, then used exiftool (-k).exe to see what got written.
It shows the two tags I added for both Subject and Keywords.
However, if I run the following exiftool command in an attempt to copy those ACDSee written "Catagrories" to IPTC:Keywords
Quoteexiftool "-EXIF:UserComment>IPTC:Keywords" -r -F -overwrite_original .
Digikam doesn't show them as tags. It does however show them as IPTC Keywords within Digikam.
Any suggestions on what exiftool command I might try to get Digikam to see them as Tags?
Thanks in advance
I think that writing to MWG:Keywords instead of IPTC:Keywords may solve your problem. See the MWG Tag Name documentation (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/MWG.html) for details.
- Phil
Thank you! I'll give it a shot.
That does appear to have worked, but the 5 tags all come into Digikam as a single tag with commas & spaces. Is there a way to break those up so they come in as individual tags?
The -sep option is used to specify the separator string for automatically splitting list-type tags when writing. Commonly, the separator is COMMA+SPACE: -sep ", ", as appears to be the case here.
(I hope someone besides me is impressed that exiftool has this ability.)
- Phil
I think that did it. Thank you so much. I'll give it a thorough test later this evening.
Honestly, I'm impressed with exiftool as a whole. I'm amazed at how well it does everything it's built to do. And I sincerely appreciate the time you've invested in it.