empty xmp sidecars for raw files

[Robert Baptista]

Examining my old xmp files, looks like I did some tagging on April 10th 
and everything was ok, but then my next session was Jun 9th and the xmp 
files are 0 bytes. So sometime between April 10th and June 9th something 
went wrong.

I'm still trying to determine when I upgraded from 7 to 8 and subsequent 
versions or if it could be something with the nas causing issues.

Robert


On 1/1/24 15:36, Robert Baptista wrote:
> Anyone else having an issue with empty sidecars when initially tagging 
> raw files using xmp sidecars with Digikam?
>
> Not sure when it started, I don't recall doing any tagging while 8.1 
> was out, but it is happening with my 8.2 appimage version.
>
> If I add some tags to a raw file that does not currently have an xmp 
> sidecar the tags don't get applied, but the sidecar file gets created 
> (0 bytes). If I go and tag it again, then it populates the sidecar 
> with the data and all is good.
>
> I have lazy writes enabled, and all tests are done after selecting to 
> apply pending changes to metadata. It seems if the file exists then 
> everything is good when making changes, but if the sidecar file does 
> not exist yet then it only creates a 0 byte file.
>
> Robert