[digiKam-users] writing sidecar files configuration

[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 13 janvier 2019 09:38:56 CET frederic chaume wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> 
> just a question , in the settings I see we can configure the option
> write to sidecars files are
> 
> - write to item and XMP sidecar
> 
> - write to sidecar XMP only
> 
> - write to XMP sidecar for read-only item only
> 
> I was then wondering what means "write to XMP sidecar for read-only item
> only"
> 
> If I want to get metadata recorded in any file so it remains
> visible/readable when exporting the picture outside of digikam, which
> option should I use ?
> 
> thanks and regards
> 
> 
> frederic
Read-only items are e.g. RAW files, normally jpg and png can be written to. 
So that third option would write metadata to the file, except for the RAW 
files and similar; for those the metadata are written to the sidecar file.

For exported images (which can be written to by definition), if you want them 
to contain the metadata, you'd have to pick the first option ("write to 
both"). If you don't want the image files to contain metadata, pick "write to 
sidecar only"