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<p>FYI I am writing a tool which will "unify" tags and rating within
a group to address the many cases where their values diverge. If
you are interested in trying it, let me know.</p>
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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">I create
tif files in Gimp and then convert the tif to jpg using
FastStone. Then add these files back to digiKam. The tags will
be identical for these files. Those for the RAW files will be
generated by digiKam. I was looking at a faster way to tag them.</span>
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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Of copying
the sidecars won't work if there any other way?</span> <br>
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<p>16 Dec 2025 7:55:41 pm Remco Viëtor
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr"><remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr></a>:</p>
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<div> On mardi 16 décembre 2025 15:14:15 heure normale
d’Europe centrale Milind <br>
Joshi wrote: <br>
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style="margin:0;border-left:3px solid #ccc; padding-left:10px;"> I have
3 collections of RAW, tif and jpg files. I have set
digiKam to write <br>
to sidecars. If I tag the RAW files and copy the xmp
sidecars to the tif <br>
and jpg directories will the tags get automatically added
to the tif and <br>
jpg files? <br>
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No: <br>
digikam uses as naming scheme for the sidecars
<name>.<ext>.xmp, where <name> <br>
and <ext> are from the image file. Raw, tiff, and jpeg
filse have different <br>
extensions. So just a simple copy won't work. Even if you
have the <br>
"compatibility" option active (that one allows reading of
<name>.xpm files). <br>
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In addition, you will have to verify the contents, some
things in the sidecar <br>
for a raw might be absent from a jpeg sidecar (and vice
versa), or have a <br>
different content. (I don't create create jpegs with
digikam, and they are <br>
rarely in the digikam collection, so they don't get tagged
by digikam in any <br>
case). <br>
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