Bug #8533
XMP sidecar name is wrong
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64-bit
hardware architecture:
amd64/x86
Description
XMP sidecar name include the extension of the camera file. It should not.
img_8211.jpg should have an XMP sidecar img_8211.xmp and not img_8211.jpg.xmp
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#1
Updated by Tobias Ellinghaus over 8 years ago
- Status changed from New to Fixed
We do that on purpose. Doing otherwise is stupid.
#2
Updated by hfiguiere - over 8 years ago
XMP Specification part 3, section 1:
"For applications that need to find external XMP files, look in the same directory for a file with the same name as the main document but with an .xmp extension. (This is called a sidecar XMP file.)"
See bug #265 for the interoperability problem.