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XMP sidecar doubt

My photos didn't have any sidecar before uploading. But I noticed many sidecar .xmp inside the library folder ( in places like upload/<user-id>/a1/ ).

1) Does immich generate a sidecar file internally to store info like description, tags etc? For all files?

2) If yes to (1), What information gets stored there - is there some documentation on that?

3) Most files have a sidecar but a few don't. Maybe the sidecars are created during certain types of upload? hmm.. idk.
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