How Do I Avoid Unneeded".tif_original" Files?

[plowmail2010 at gmail.com]

FALSE ALARM!!!
Not a DigiKam issue.

It's a Bob issue.  I did not see the info on "_original" in the help 
text for exiftool:
"...To copy or move metadata, the -tagsFromFile feature is used. By 
default the
     original files are preserved with "_original" appended to their 
names..."

Shame on me for blaming DigiKam. I ran one exiftool command amid much 
DigiKam gymnastics,
and didn't notice its generous help.  It didn't occur to me that 
exiftool would do something I did not tell it to do.
Mea culpa.

Bob

On 12/10/2023 3:58 AM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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
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