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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">FALSE
ALARM!!!<br>
Not a DigiKam issue.<br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">It's a Bob
issue. I did not see the info on "_original" in the help text
for exiftool:<br>
"...To copy or move metadata, the -tagsFromFile feature is used.
By default the<br>
original files are preserved with "_original" appended to
their names..."<br>
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<font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Shame on me for
blaming DigiKam. I ran one exiftool command amid much DigiKam
gymnastics,<br>
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didn't notice its generous help. It didn't occur to me that
exiftool would do something I did not tell it to do.<br>
Mea culpa.<br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Bob<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/10/2023 3:58 AM, Gilles Caulier
wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi,
Which tool did you use exactly to obtain this kind of duplicate file
in your collection ?
Did you enable the ExifTool support to read write metadata ?
Best
Gilles Caulier
Le dim. 10 déc. 2023 à 02:19, <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:plowmail2010@gmail.com"><plowmail2010@gmail.com></a> a écrit :
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Windows 7
DigiKam 8.2
After fiddling with metadata, I discovered that every TIF file in my
folders had acquired a companion with the extension tif_original.
E.g. 4800-1.tif had a companion named 4800-1.tif_original.
I did not do that. DigiKam did that.
How do I keep DigiKam from writing into my image-file folders?
Bob
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