switching to sidecar file name NOT compatible with commercial program

[frederic chaume]

Hi all

the setting "sidecar files names are compatible with commercial 
programms" was set to on, but because of some compatibility issue wih 
DXO, I had to set it off.

the consequence is that I need to migrate the sidecar files name to the 
new format (file.<RAW type>.xmp)
another consequence is that the "finding new items" is taking lots of 
time , and I prefered to cancel it as I suspect the DB is updated base 
on the new configuration ,and as the new xmp file is missing , then it 
is removing the metadata. May be someone can confirm the behavior

FYI I'm using DK 8.4 on windows 10

Based on this, I guess that the best solution is "just" to rename 
file.xmp by file.ORF.xmp  for ORF Raw file and the same for any other 
raw file type I have on my PC
I started to create a script in powershell, and it confirms my analyse , 
some pictures has lost metadata and then recover them as soon as the xmp 
files are renamed. But this  is painfull as I'm not a dev expert in 
Powershell and as there are many cases to handle: ORF.xmp already exist 
, xmp corresponding to different raw type, ....

so before spending all my time in this exercise, I'm wondering if 
someone have any idea to make it more simple ?  Is there a procedure in 
DK to perform this migration ? may be someone falled into this scenario 
already and have experience to share ?


thanks in advance for any advice

Frederic