[digiKam-users] xmp sidecar files for tiff files

[Milind Joshi]

Hi Maik

Thanks. That worked! BTW, I found the culprit! It's the latest release 
of Gimp. By default it exports the tiff file in the Big TIFF format. 
When I switch off that option while exporting a tif file, the sidecar is 
not created.

I guess since this is going to be a feature of Gimp 3 also, this should 
be taken care of in the next release of digiKam.

Till such time, please switch off this option while exporting a tiff 
unless you need Big TIFF for whatever reason.

mj

> Thank you for the test image. The TIFF is a BTF image, more precisely a
> BigTIFF. A BigTIFF has a 64-bit image file format. Exiv2 does not currently
> support this.
> Also, ExifTool currently only supports reading metadata. This means that even
> with digiKam-8.0.0 and ExifTool support when writing, no metadata can be
> changed in this BTF image.
>
> You can open the image in the digiKam image editor and save it again as a
> TIFF, then everything works, this should also work with the BQM.
>
> Maik
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