<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>I use both darktable and digikam and they share same xmps. </div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Mica Semrick <mica@silentumbrella.com> </div><div>Date: 2018-01-06 6:21 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: Lightroom to DigiKam: reading xmp files </div><div><br></div></div>One solution might by symlinking file.xmp to file.ext.xmp.<br>
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You could also try darktable for editing, which also uses file.ext.xmp for sidecar files.<br>
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IMO, the xmp spec is silly for allowing multiple files per sidecar and for not including the native file extension.<br>
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-m<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On January 6, 2018 2:37:33 PM PST, salinaale <salinaale@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Hello to all,<br>I tried to solve the problem of the xmp file format but without success.<br>I'm trying to replace Lightroom with DigiKam but it's not possible because<br>DigiKam is not able to read xmp files generated by Lightroom.<br>I tried to rename xmp file ( from filename.xmp -> filename.ext.xmp) and<br>everythings seemed to be ok in DK; i was able to search every photo by tag,<br>title etc etc... wow...<br>But... this cannot be the solution.. if i rename every xmp files in<br>filename.ext.xmp, those files are not read by external editors... for<br>example by Dxo Photolab.<br>It's a shame that I can not use DigiKam ... I'll have to look for a new<br>replacement for Lightroom....<br><br><br><br>--<br>Sent from: <a href="http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digikam-users-f1735189.html">http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digikam-users-f1735189.html</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>