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Hi,<br>
may be, I'm not on the line. But why do you keep two DB's? <br>
I have the same environment (Manjaro and Windows), files are on the
Windows-Side along with one SQLite DB. Therefor there's no need to
sync and I have the same DB from both OSs. <br>
Do I overlook something?<br>
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Best <br>
Stephan Burges <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 01.02.2022 um 07:02 schrieb Gilles
Caulier:<br>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>In digiKam configuration setup dialog, what's your settings
from Metadata/Sidecars/Write to Sidecars and especially the
combo-box options for writing mode operations ?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 1 févr. 2022 à 04:10,
Will Rose <<a href="mailto:will.rose@outlook.com"
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is what I'm trying to do...</div>
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have a dual boot environment, Ubuntu and Windows. Two
separate SQLite DB's, but both point to the same folders
and files.<br>
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style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I
am trying to do all my DigiKam tagging in Ubuntu since the
program runs much nicer. Then when I boot into Windows I'd
like to select Album > Reread metadata from files, so
that my Windows DB gets updated.</div>
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style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This
works fine if the metadata gets written from Ubuntu into
the files themselves, such as with JPG files. However, if
I'm tagging HEIC and video files and it is creating XMP
sidecars, DigiKam is not willing to treat those as
"metadata from files" so there is no easy way to update my
Windows DB.</div>
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<div
style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Is
this possible to do? Is there an option I'm missing?
Thanks!<br>
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