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<p>Hi,<br>
</p>
<p>My wife is a very keen photo hobbist.</p>
<p>I'm in the process of moving 90,000 photos from Adobe photo
elements to digiKam 8.4.0 (started process in prior version).</p>
<p>I'm using 2 different platforms for testing and production,
Window 11 and Chromebook.</p>
<p>I've exported all the photos and have an sidecar xmp for each
photo with Tags representing all the catalogues from Adobe.</p>
<p>The initial install and scan for photos imported everything as
expected in the prior version. I have all 3 items checked, as per
the screen shot, on the sidecars setup tab for metadata.<br>
</p>
<p>Issues:</p>
<ol>
<li>When I add new photos (with xmp file) in version 8.4.0 the
sidecar is automatically read, I have to do an Album >
Reread Metadata from files.</li>
<li>If I update the tags (delete or add a new tag) the information
is not writen back to the sidecar file. I have an import python
app that copies photos from a source to "Pictures" folder and
creates a sidecar file containing Tags for the import date and
time.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p>I could just use the sidecar file as a once only import tool and
rely on the db to store all the data but I want to keep the data
standalone to easily move between platforms (Chromebook is used
whilst traveling and then transfered to Windows server when back
home).<br>
<br>
What have I missed?<br>
<br>
Thanks and regards<br>
Barry<br>
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<p>sidecar.xmp example:<br>
<?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?><br>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="XMP Core
4.4.0-Exiv2"><br>
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf=<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">"http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"</a>><br>
<rdf:Description rdf:about=""<br>
xmlns:digiKam=<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.digikam.org/ns/1.0/">"http://www.digikam.org/ns/1.0/"</a><br>
xmlns:dc=<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"</a><br>
><br>
<digiKam:CaptionsAuthorNames><br>
<rdf:Alt><br>
<rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">Gail
Xxxxxxxx</rdf:li><br>
</rdf:Alt><br>
</digiKam:CaptionsAuthorNames><br>
<digiKam:TagsList><br>
<rdf:Seq><br>
<rdf:li>/Imported Catalogue/import 2024-09-14
12:29:57</rdf:li><br>
</rdf:Seq><br>
</digiKam:TagsList><br>
<dc:title><br>
<rdf:Alt><br>
<rdf:li xml:lang="x-default"></rdf:li><br>
</rdf:Alt><br>
</dc:title><br>
<dc:description><br>
<rdf:Alt><br>
<rdf:li xml:lang="x-default"></rdf:li><br>
</rdf:Alt><br>
</dc:description><br>
</rdf:Description><br>
</rdf:RDF><br>
</x:xmpmeta><br>
<?xpacket end="w"?><br>
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