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artsi
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XMP sidecars

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I've been using xnviewmp for a couple of weeks and have come to the conclusion:

1. xmp sidecars do slow down (quite a bit) xnviewmp on my "almost large" image collection of around 50,000 images.
2. I don't really need the sidecars. I use xnviewmp to find images then I process them with either art or darktable


How do I configure xnviewmp to not write sidecars and have only xmviewmp keep track of the categories and ratings?

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Franky
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Re: XMP sidecars

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If you don't want a XMP file, go to the Settings in the Browser/Metadata menu
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Re: XMP sidecars

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Franky wrote: Fri Oct 21, 2022 3:21 pm If you don't want a XMP file, go to the Settings in the Browser/Metadata menu
Yes, I did but I want t have xnviewmp track the data.

Here are my current settings

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Re: XMP sidecars

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what do you have in 'Settings>File list - companion files'?
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Re: XMP sidecars

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xnview wrote: Sat Oct 22, 2022 12:19 pm what do you have in 'Settings>File list - companion files'?
Is this what you are looking for?

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Re: XMP sidecars

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so with your settings no sidecar are written
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