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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how did you upload?
immich-go was used at some point. Otherwise, web upload (including drag and drop).
immich-go likely created some metadata based on upload, and stored it in the sidecar files
@Simulot could you confirm?
Otherwise,
I've heard that immich creates those files too... could it be that?
If so, when or why does immich do this?
immich will have created those files. If immich-go decided there was some other information to be included in the file at time of upload, it would've told immich to update the asset. Since immich does not update assets directly, it would've been placed in a sidecar file. Feel free to open a sidecar file and see what the contents are to determine why it's there
thanks for your help @Tempest
is there some documentation about this? (xmp sidecar creation and why/when)
When immich-go tells immich to update an asset, that must be similar to users editing an asset on the webpage as well right? With the same sidecar effect.
yes I saw the files, but it didn't answer my original questions.
There is no doc, no
Are the sidecars a problem for you?
the only brief doc is https://immich.app/docs/FAQ/#does-immich-change-the-file
nope, just want to understand what's going on.
When and why are these created? Did immich-go create them or immich itself?
They are created by Immich whenever metadata is edited. Immich-go does that, through the immich api
got it.
also related to this, I saw @bo0tzz 's comments here https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/5066
I guess this includes users editing through the app as well, right? Not just through api.
And edits would include - datetime, location, description - all of these fields?
Yes
Nothing to add!
now the final answers to these questions are posted here: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/10281#discussioncomment-11945857
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