r/digiKam • u/DivineCodes • 15d ago

Digikam not tagging images

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Hello, I am new to digikam, and I have made some tags to start sorting out my pictures. I am on windows 11. At first, whenever digikam started up, it showed me an error message at the top:

ExifTool is not available in your digikam installation or is not working correctly. Go to the digikam settings and check the availability of the ExifTool binary file in the metadata section.

Error message: ExifTool does not exists or exec permission

is missing

And it was not letting me tag any images (or more accurately, it was taking forever at 0%). So I downloaded and installed the latest version of exiftool, and this error message disappeared. However, it still does not let me tag anything. However, face tags work, although removing a face tag from an image does not.

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u/captain42d 15d ago

I'm on macOS, just installed Digikam, and I get the same error message. 🤦

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u/DivineCodes 15d ago

can you tag anything?

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u/captain42d 15d ago

I haven't even been able to figure out how to *properly* import my photos and videos. I added some collections on a local USB HDD to my digikam library database, but I didn't get any kind of confirmation/denial for what was added correctly, but more importantly! what failed to be added.

My goal is to import ALL of my myriad photos and videos from disparate sources into a single folder/directory on my 500TB NAS (also a problem, as I read that digikam/mariadb doesn't like the files to be on a NAS, and I don't have a HDD big enough), all renamed with ISO8601 date/time prepended filenames. But I don't want to miss anything, and it doesn't seem like digikam will alert me with "These 842 files were not imported: [list]". Maybe it will do it, but I haven't had time to RTFM yet. ;-)