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== Using XMP Sidecar support in digiKam 2 beta 3 ==
Transcribed from Mohammed Malik's blog, 18 March 2011

What does '''XMP sidecar''' mean? It means that when ever meta-data is written to an image, an XMP file is created along-side the image. Therefore instead of writing the meta-data to the image a new XMP file is created, which is linked to the image.

=== Example ===

If a picture has the name mohamedmalik.JPG, when meta-data is written to the image it will create a new file in the same directory called mohamedmalik.JPG.XMP.  This file contains all the new and previously written meta-data, leaving the image untouched. This is very useful when writing meta-data to RAW files.

While using '''XMP sidecar''' support there are many options available. In-order to use '''XMP sidecar''' support you need to configure it.

In '''digiKam’s''' main window go to <menuchoice>Settings -> Configure digiKam</menuchoice> and select the tab <menuchoice>Meta-data</menuchoice>


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There are four options available:

* <menuchoice>Write to image only</menuchoice> — This option will not use XMP but will write all the meta-data directly into the images.
* <menuchoice>Write to XMP sidecar only</menuchoice> — No meta-data will be written to any images directly but it will write all meta-data into a separate XMP file in the same directory as the image.
* <menuchoice>Write to image & XMP sidecar</menuchoice> – metadata will be written to both XMP and Image.
* <menuchoice>Write to XMP sidecar to Read-only images only</menuchoice> — which means that images which have read, write and execute permissions meta-data will be written directly to the image whereas for Read–only images '''XMP sidecar''' will be used.

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