> Metadata is not being written whatever I've tried.

Okay. This is a significant problem and highly unusual behavior. It
may have to do with file permissions or with something else peculiar
to your setup. Either way, let's figure out what's going on. What
would be helpful here is if you could generate a Shotwell log file to
see what errors, if any, are being generated when metadata writing
should occur, but does not. To learn how to turn logging on, see the
"I found a bug in Shotwell. How can I report it?" section of the
Shotwell FAQ here:
http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/ShotwellFAQ.

While running Shotwell with logging turned on, do the following:

(i)
Open the "Preferences" dialog and ensure that the "Write tags, titles
and other metadata to photo files" box is checked. Even if it is
checked, uncheck it, close the preferences dialog, open the
preferences dialog again, re-check, and close the preferences dialog
again -- this way we'll have logging information about writing the
value of this flag to the configuration system.

(ii)
Open an event or a tag. Select all the photos in it. Add a new tag to
the photos.

Leave Shotwell running for another few minutes to see if metadata
writing kicks in. If it doesn't, then quit Shotwell and email the log
file you captured to [email protected] (NB: the domain there is just
yorba.org, not lists.yorba.org -- this way you'll send your log
directly to the dev team, not the public mailing list).

Take care,
Lucas
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