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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">All the image will be basename.ext and the sidecars will be basename.xmp no ext in the sidecar names.</span>
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<p>16 Dec 2025 7:55:41 pm Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr>:</p>
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On mardi 16 décembre 2025 15:14:15 heure normale d’Europe centrale Milind
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Joshi wrote:
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I have 3 collections of RAW, tif and jpg files. I have set digiKam to write
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to sidecars. If I tag the RAW files and copy the xmp sidecars to the tif
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and jpg directories will the tags get automatically added to the tif and
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jpg files?
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</blockquote>No:
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digikam uses as naming scheme for the sidecars <name>.<ext>.xmp, where <name>
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and <ext> are from the image file. Raw, tiff, and jpeg filse have different
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extensions. So just a simple copy won't work. Even if you have the
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"compatibility" option active (that one allows reading of <name>.xpm files).
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In addition, you will have to verify the contents, some things in the sidecar
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for a raw might be absent from a jpeg sidecar (and vice versa), or have a
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different content. (I don't create create jpegs with digikam, and they are
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rarely in the digikam collection, so they don't get tagged by digikam in any
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case).
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