Re: Copy xmp sidecars

All the image will be basename.ext and the sidecars will be basename.xmp no ext in the sidecar names.
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16 Dec 2025 7:55:41 pm Remco Viëtor <[email protected]>:

> 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).