SUMMARY When exporting a selection to local storage, items with sidecars are copied without their sidecars. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Make a selection containing items with sidecars 2. Export > Export to local storage... 3. Tick "Use the album path of the items in the target" (probably unrelated though, but that's how I tested) 4. "Start Export" OBSERVED RESULT Sidecar files are nowhere to be found in the export. EXPECTED RESULT Sidecar files are copied next to their parent item in the new local folder SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: NixOS 22.11 KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.99.0 Qt Version: 5.15.7 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I use digiKam to manage my personal photos and videos. When friends and family visit me, I like to share part of my library with them (only what's relevant to them). It is important that the metadata I added is exported for them to be able to leverage all the search features of digiKam on their own computer. For formats that support it, I have configured digiKam to sync the metadata to the files, but for other formats, like most video formats, I rely on sidecars to store the metadata. I have verified the issue on a windows machine with digiKam 7.9.0 to which I no longer have access, but it seems likely to me that the issue is unrelated to the host platform, or the version of digiKam. I have experience with C++ and can attempt a PR if provided with some pointers to get me started. (no pun intended)
In fact, it was not previously intended to export sidecars. We even have the feature to remove metadata. So far there have only ever been requests to remove the metadata. The sidecar should be exported in any case optional. In the same way, the sidecars would also have to be exported with the symlink options. Maik
Git commit 9377c1fe4bd7c3c334f2e400c6688b5a8540e458 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 07/01/2023 at 20:52. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. add option to include the sidecars FIXED-IN: 8.0.0 M +2 -1 NEWS M +2 -0 core/dplugins/generic/webservices/filecopy/fccontainer.h M +7 -0 core/dplugins/generic/webservices/filecopy/fcexportwidget.cpp M +4 -0 core/dplugins/generic/webservices/filecopy/fcexportwindow.cpp M +24 -1 core/dplugins/generic/webservices/filecopy/fctask.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/9377c1fe4bd7c3c334f2e400c6688b5a8540e458