Sidecars & Deleted people tags reappearing

[Remco Viëtor]

On mercredi 18 décembre 2024 17:47:31 CET Nadine Helkenn wrote:
> I was really hoping that someone could guide me on dealing with sidecars. I
> really want to remove them. I have not received any responses. I'm afraid
> of compromising my database.

Sidecars do not replace the database, and are not necessary for digikam to 
work. You can safely delete them. Iirc, digikam only reads from sidecars when 
you ask it.

Note that there is one situation where you may lose data when deleting the 
sidecar: you use another program to modify the xmps (e.g. darktable, or 
lightroom) and some of the metadata in the sidecar cannot be used by digikam.
Those metadata will stay in the sidecar, and will not be stored in the 
database. Even then, removing the sidecars will not compromise the database.

If you want to take extra precautions, make a copy of the database in a safe 
location before removing the sidecars.