How to stop Digikam writing to MOV files?

Thomas sdktda at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 18:10:18 BST 2026


Wow! I hope this is not the case. I do not want DK to touch any of my 
files unless I explicitly want that... Please tell me this is a weird 
bug and not intended behavior.


On 2026-08-09 15.56, meku wrote:
> I discovered in Digikam 9.1 now writes metadata to MOV files using 
> exiftool, even though the config settings to use exiftool are not 
> selected.
>
> Other video file types such as MP4 still write to sidecar as expected.
>
> I don't want to update video files, and the previous behavior just 
> used sidecars for all videos. Is there a setting to stop Digikam from 
> making updates to MOV using exiftool?
>
> Thanks.
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