[digiKam-users] XMP read files

[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 29 septembre 2019 18:14:44 CEST D. Salvatore wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am new in DigiKam. I am trying to switch to DigiKam because I believe it
> is much better than others to organize and manage photos.
> At the moment, my photo library is composed of pictures (picture01.jpg) and
> XMP files (picture01.jpg.xmp) where all tags and photo editing are written.
> In DigiKam I am able to see all the original photos but not at the latest
> version of them (for the one I edited) and all the other metadata.
What program produced those sidecars?

It's quite possible that your image editor writes the operations you performed 
to the sidecar files without automatically creating an edited image (e.g. 
darktable works that way, to get an edited image you need to explicitly 
export). 

If that it the case for you, Digikam cannot show your edits, as it cannot 
understand the editing commands in the sidecars (even if it had similar 
operations, parameters are not necessarily the same, think units).

Remco