[digiKam-users] How to know if sidecar is being used?

[Marc Palaus]

I don't know if it's possible to do that in digikam (probably not), but 
in this case, I would use exiftool directly to extract the metadata and 
save it to sidecar files.

There are a few examples to do that on their page (which seems to be 
down, so I paste a cached version):

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BnO-AF0HMHEJ:https://exiftool.org/metafiles.html+&cd=1&hl=ca&ct=clnk&gl=us


El 3/12/21 a les 15:51, Ronald Orenstein ha escrit:
> In which case may I try yet again to get an answer to a similar 
> question: If metadata changes (eg tags) have been written to the image 
> can they be exported in a sidecar file for backup purposes (to be 
> associated with an older offline version of the file that lacks the 
> changes)?
>
> And please tell me if this is an inappropriate question to ask here!
>
> Thanks -
>
> Ron
>
> Ronald Orenstein
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>
> On Friday, December 3, 2021, 03:23:48 p.m. EST, Marc Palaus 
> <marcpalaus at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Perfect! That's what I wanted to know. Thanks
>
> El 3/12/21 a les 15:19, Maik Qualmann ha escrit:
> > For some time now, whether a sidecar exists has been shown in the 
> Properties
> > tab of the right sidebar in the Item Properties section.
> >
> > Maik
> >
> > Am Freitag, 3. Dezember 2021, 21:00:11 CET schrieb Marc Palaus:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I don't know if there's any way of knowing which photos are using
> >> sidecar files in Digikam. I personally activate the option to "Read 
> from
> >> sidecar files" and "Write to sidecar files" but only fore read-only
> >> items. Basically, I only want to use sidecars for writing XMP metadata
> >> for video files, not pictures.
> >>
> >> However, sometimes because I set some incorrect permissions in some
> >> files and they are read-only, digikam writes sidecars for those 
> pictures
> >> too. The problem comes when you want to edit those pictures metadata
> >> once they are writable again. Digikam writes the changes to the picture
> >> (since they're not read-only anymore), but metadata is read from the
> >> sidecar, which has been left untouched, so for digikam's database it's
> >> as if nothing happened, and can be a bit confusing.
> >>
> >> Is there any way to see if a sidecar is present in digikam's interface?
> >>
> >> (I could open a bug report if this is something that could be worth
> >> considering, I just wanted to ask first.)
> >
> >
> >
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