[digiKam-users] xmp sidecar files for tiff files

[Maik Qualmann]

Possibly Exiv2 could not write to the TIFF file, there can be different reasons. 
Then a sidecar is created automatically, since the TIFF file is only "Read 
only". A debug log or a TIFF test file would be good.

Please download DebugView from Microsoft and start it. Activate the internal 
debugging in the digiKam setup under Miscellaneous-> System and start digiKam 
again. Now write metadata to the TIFF file and post all the output from the 
DebugView window.

Maik

Am Freitag, 2. September 2022, 22:31:49 CEST schrieb Milind Joshi:
> I assign rating to my tiff images in digiKam. I have also set digiKam to
> write metadata to xmp files only for read only files. It used to work
> fine and the original tiff files used to be modified with the rating data.
> 
> However, today I notices that when I assigned a rating to a tiff file,
> an xmp file was generated! I don't remember changing anything in the
> settings. What could be the reason for this sudden change. The tiff file
> is not read only.
> 
> Operating environment: Windows 11, digiKam 7.7.0
> 
> mj