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<p>Also, maybe you know that already, but you must choose/decide for
xmp file names setting; if the tick box "Side car file names are
compatible..." should be marked or not so both sw writes and read
in the same xmp file. <br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html#sidecars-settings">https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html#sidecars-settings</a></p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>Henrik<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Den 2023-10-22 kl. 15:55, skrev
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Hello Remko,<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Thank you very much for your quick
response. In thinking more about the .xmp files, I can easily
understand--now--why the changes to the image can't be
transferred between digiKam and darktable, and thumbnails can't
be transferred, either.<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Jay<br>
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<div>On Sun, Oct 22, 2023, at 01:34, Remco Viëtor wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">On dimanche 22 octobre 2023
01:52:36 CEST Jay wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> I'm using digiKam 8.0.0 and
darktable 4.4.2 on Linux Mint 21.2.<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> I may have misunderstood
the use of sidecars. I was expecting that a sidecar<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> created in darktable would
be readable by digiKam to show the changes I<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> might have made in
darktable and have them displayed in digiKam. And<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> vice-versa as well.
However, I'm not seeing the changes I make to each raw<br>
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application, so think I may have misunderstood the<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> ability to interchange .xmp
files.<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> I have set digiKam to read
and write to .xmp files, and have also set<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> additional file extensions
to RW2, my raw file extension.<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> Any assistance appreciated.<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> Jay Rutherford<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">The sidecars from darktable can
be read by digikam (I use that feature <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">myself). That said, reading an
xmp file does not mean the reading program can <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">*use* the information... <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Digikam can use the keywords,
captions, etc. written by darktable (and vice <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">versa). It cannot read the
editing instructions from darktable. Some of <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">darktable's modules have no
equivalent in digikam, and for others you cannot <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">be sure the parameters have the
same meaning. <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Also, applications do not store
a thumbnail in a sidecar file. So there is no <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">way to transfer an edit from one
program to another through a sidecar file, <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">you will have to create an image
file with the edits (export in darktable).<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Nor is there an easy way to
reuse the thumbnails from one program in the other <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">(they use a completely different
image formats and thumbnail organisations).<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Remco<br>
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