Jose,

> You are taking for granted that the user will further develop the
> image once the external drive is available.

Right!

> But it may not happening, even more in our implementation in which as
> we are store the full raw image the user can even have exported and
> delivered the final images from the local cache.

Sure, this is indeed something to consider. Should we try at startup
time to sync xmp for all images for which a local copy exists? Will this
be enough or do you envision some complications?

> Well, I was also considering that we had already activated the option
> to write the XMP data along the cached files. I think that it make
> sense to have that critical part backed up also.

Fine by me, will activate this. In fact I have deactivated, so it will
make the patch simpler again :)

> That sounds enough, if we make a dialog explaining what is happening :-)

Right. Will work on that too.

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

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