[digiKam-users] Reread metadata from files: Can this extend to XMP sidecars?

[Stephan Burges]

Hi,
may be, I'm not on the line. But why do you keep two DB's?
I have the same environment (Manjaro and Windows), files are on the Windows-Side along with one SQLite DB. Therefor there's no need to sync and I have the same DB from both OSs.
Do I overlook something?

Best
Stephan Burges

Am 01.02.2022 um 07:02 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> Hi,
>
> In digiKam configuration setup dialog, what's your settings from Metadata/Sidecars/Write to Sidecars and especially the combo-box options for writing mode operations ?
>
> Best
>
> Giles Caulier
>
> Le mar. 1 févr. 2022 à 04:10, Will Rose <will.rose at outlook.com> a écrit :
>
>     This is what I'm trying to do...
>
>     I have a dual boot environment, Ubuntu and Windows. Two separate SQLite DB's, but both point to the same folders and files.
>
>     I am trying to do all my DigiKam tagging in Ubuntu since the program runs much nicer. Then when I boot into Windows I'd like to select Album > Reread metadata from files, so that my Windows DB gets updated.
>
>     This works fine if the metadata gets written from Ubuntu into the files themselves, such as with JPG files. However, if I'm tagging HEIC and video files and it is creating XMP sidecars, DigiKam is not willing to treat those as "metadata from files" so there is no easy way to update my Windows DB.
>
>     Is this possible to do? Is there an option I'm missing? Thanks!
>
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