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  • May 28, 2026 at 1:26 pm #147692
    Stewart Logie
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    I am trying to get keywords into digikam and it successfully sees the star rating from Nitro, but keywords are absent.
    I don’t see assigned keywords in the xmp file. Star rating is written but not keywords.

    <?xpacket begin=”” id=”W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d”?>
    <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x=”adobe:ns:meta/” x:xmptk=”XMP Core 5.5.0″>
    <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=”http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#”&gt;
    <rdf:Description rdf:about=””
    xmlns:xmp=”http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/”&gt;
    <xmp:CreatorTool>Nitro</xmp:CreatorTool>
    <xmp:Rating>2</xmp:Rating>
    <xmp:MetadataDate>2026-05-28T10:09:31-07:00</xmp:MetadataDate>
    </rdf:Description>
    </rdf:RDF>
    </x:xmpmeta>

    I am trying to get keywords into digikam and it successfully sees the star rating from Nitro, but keywords are absent.

    May 28, 2026 at 1:30 pm #147806
    Nik Bhatt
    Keymaster

    That’s certainly odd. The images are stored in the Finder and you add a keyword in Nitro but it’s not saved?
    Is the XMP data you put in this post from the Nitro XMP sidecar file or is it from digikam or something else?

    Please try the following:
    1. Open Nitro
    2. Select a file that doesn’t have an XMP sidecar
    3. Rate and add a keyword
    4. Go to the next image to make sure it’s written out
    5. Open the XMP sidecar in TextEdit or something – is the keyword present?

    May 28, 2026 at 1:38 pm #147807
    Christopher Moss
    Participant

    My Nitro-created .xmp files contain keywords at the end in this format, for example:

    <rdf:Bag>
    <rdf:li>ISO 50</rdf:li>
    <rdf:li>Kodak HC-110</rdf:li>
    <rdf:li>Rolleiflex 2.8GX</rdf:li>
    <rdf:li>Valoi Easy120/D850 scan</rdf:li>
    <rdf:li>XP2</rdf:li>
    </rdf:Bag>

    May 28, 2026 at 2:53 pm #147808
    Stewart Logie
    Participant

    I did some further experimentation. One step that I did not mention was that I had imported into Nitro a keyword list in txt format that had been exported by digikam. Its content and hierarchy look fine in Nitro. I now notice that when I attached keywords with that list selected they did not stick, even when I went to another image and came back. Closing Nitro and reopening with that imported txt file seemed to cause the keywords to stick. They now appear in the xmp sidecar file.

    Thanks, Stewart

    May 29, 2026 at 6:57 am #147810
    Gary Small
    Participant

    Are your xmp files from Nitro in standard format (file name.xmp) or what I normally see (file name.normal extension.xmp. Ie filename.dng.xmp)? If the latter, none of my other software will read them at all.

    May 29, 2026 at 2:19 pm #147812
    Nik Bhatt
    Keymaster

    He wrote earlier that the rating was seen, so the XMP file was readable by his other app.

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