How Do I Avoid Unneeded".tif_original" Files?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Which tool did you use exactly to obtain this kind of duplicate file
in your collection ?

Did you enable the ExifTool support to read write metadata ?

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le dim. 10 déc. 2023 à 02:19, <plowmail2010 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Windows 7
> DigiKam 8.2
>
> After fiddling with metadata, I discovered that every TIF file in my
> folders had acquired a companion with the extension tif_original.
> E.g. 4800-1.tif had a companion named 4800-1.tif_original.
> I did not do that.  DigiKam did that.
>
> How do I keep DigiKam from writing into my image-file folders?
>
> Bob