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<p>I don't know if it's possible to do that in digikam (probably
not), but in this case, I would use exiftool directly to extract
the metadata and save it to sidecar files.</p>
<p>There are a few examples to do that on their page (which seems to
be down, so I paste a cached version):<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BnO-AF0HMHEJ:https://exiftool.org/metafiles.html+&cd=1&hl=ca&ct=clnk&gl=us">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BnO-AF0HMHEJ:https://exiftool.org/metafiles.html+&cd=1&hl=ca&ct=clnk&gl=us</a></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 3/12/21 a les 15:51, Ronald
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">In which case may I try yet
again to get an answer to a similar question: If metadata
changes (eg tags) have been written to the image can they be
exported in a sidecar file for backup purposes (to be
associated with an older offline version of the file that
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">And please tell me if this
is an inappropriate question to ask here!</div>
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<div> On Friday, December 3, 2021, 03:23:48 p.m. EST, Marc
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<div dir="ltr">Perfect! That's what I wanted to know. Thanks<br clear="none">
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El 3/12/21 a les 15:19, Maik Qualmann ha escrit:<br clear="none">
> For some time now, whether a sidecar exists has
been shown in the Properties<br clear="none">
> tab of the right sidebar in the Item Properties
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> Maik<br clear="none">
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> Am Freitag, 3. Dezember 2021, 21:00:11 CET schrieb
Marc Palaus:<br clear="none">
>> Hi,<br clear="none">
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>> I don't know if there's any way of knowing
which photos are using<br clear="none">
>> sidecar files in Digikam. I personally activate
the option to "Read from<br clear="none">
>> sidecar files" and "Write to sidecar files" but
only fore read-only<br clear="none">
>> items. Basically, I only want to use sidecars
for writing XMP metadata<br clear="none">
>> for video files, not pictures.<br clear="none">
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>> However, sometimes because I set some incorrect
permissions in some<br clear="none">
>> files and they are read-only, digikam writes
sidecars for those pictures<br clear="none">
>> too. The problem comes when you want to edit
those pictures metadata<br clear="none">
>> once they are writable again. Digikam writes
the changes to the picture<br clear="none">
>> (since they're not read-only anymore), but
metadata is read from the<br clear="none">
>> sidecar, which has been left untouched, so for
digikam's database it's<br clear="none">
>> as if nothing happened, and can be a bit
confusing.<br clear="none">
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>> Is there any way to see if a sidecar is present
in digikam's interface?<br clear="none">
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>> (I could open a bug report if this is something
that could be worth<br clear="none">
>> considering, I just wanted to ask first.)<br clear="none">
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