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</div><div><div dir="ltr">I send this to the wrong email address. My apologies! </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">No wonder I haven't seen a response!</div>
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<div> </div><hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Nadine Helkenn <cnhelkenn@comcast.net><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 8, 2024 2:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> mailman-owner@kde.org <mailman-owner@kde.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Sidecars & .xmp files<div> </div></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I’m trying to understand sidecars. I have read the documentation & the tutorials, but still do not have a clear idea.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I believe that they should hold the metadata for files that cannot or should not have metadata written to them. So each file that has additional metadata added by DigiKam has a little companion .xmp file. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My workflow is such that I have created an album where I bring in new images (from my phone, digital camera (via memory card), or scanned with a dedicated scanner) that I want to process with additional information before I move them to their respective albums (generally chronological yyyy-mm-dd). So now this new-images album has a whole bunch of .xmp files left behind after the images have been processed & moved. Am I supposed to do anything with them? Shouldn’t they be moved with their respective image files? Should I manually move them with file explorer? Can I just delete them (would I lose the edits they contain)? I am extremely confused!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I am using DigiKam to manage my personal photo collection. DigiKam has many features that are way beyond my needs, but it’s the best way I have found to organize my images. I currently have over 130k images. I am scanning a large number of old family photos from my own family & my husband’s family, with the intention of being able to share with family members who are interested. My collection continues to grow every day. Those that came before me had not done too good a job keeping track of who, what, where, or when. By working in DigiKam and discovering matching images & data, I am able to fill in some of the missing who, what, where, & when. This would be a lot harder without DigiKam.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I’m using DigiKam 8.3.0 on Windows 10.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My kudos go to the developers & users who are making it all happen.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">NadineH</div>
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