Copy xmp sidecars

[Milind Joshi]

I create tif files in Gimp and then convert the tif to jpg using FastStone. Then add these files back to digiKam. The tags will be identical for these files. Those for the RAW files will be generated by digiKam. I was looking at a faster way to tag them.

Of copying the sidecars won't work if there any other way?
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16 Dec 2025 7:55:41 pm Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>:

> On mardi 16 décembre 2025 15:14:15 heure normale d’Europe centrale Milind
> Joshi wrote:
>> I have 3 collections of RAW, tif and jpg files. I have set digiKam to write
>> to sidecars. If I tag the RAW files and copy the xmp sidecars to the tif
>> and jpg directories will the tags get automatically added to the tif and
>> jpg files?
> No:
> digikam uses as naming scheme for the sidecars <name>.<ext>.xmp, where <name>
> and <ext> are from the image file. Raw, tiff, and jpeg filse have different
> extensions. So just a simple copy won't work. Even if you have the
> "compatibility" option active (that one allows reading of <name>.xpm files).
> 
> In addition, you will have to verify the contents, some things in the sidecar
> for a raw might be absent from a jpeg sidecar (and vice versa), or have a
> different content. (I don't create create jpegs with digikam, and they are
> rarely in the digikam collection, so they don't get tagged by digikam in any
> case).
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