[digiKam-users] XMP sidecar settings

[Maik Qualmann]

Hi Alan,

my first question is, why are you still on digiKam-6.4.0? We are now about to 
release digiKam-7.2.0 (https://files.kde.org/digikam/). Windows support in 
particular has also been significantly improved in the 7.x.x versions.

To your question: Simply select in the metadata settings for sidecar that you 
only have sidecar files for items that can only be read. Read only does not 
only mean files that are write-protected, but also RAW files.

Maik

Am Sonntag, 24. Januar 2021, 03:39:33 CET schrieb Alan H:
> Hello,
> Using 6.4 on Windows. Is there a setting so that XMP sidecars are created
> only for raw file metadata and have jpeg metadata written directly to the
> jpeg without creating (overwriting!) a XMP sidecar? I’m running into
> problems where I wish to have different metadata for a jpeg-raw pair but
> cannot use the filename.jpg.xmp and filename.rw2.xmp convention. Returning
> to process/update the raw after changes in the jpeg is a bit of a clutzy
> and sometimes forgotten sequence. Current settings are: “Write to item and
> XMP sidecar” and “Use a compatible filename for writing to sidecar files”.
> Thanks. Alan
> 
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