On Thu, May 16, 2019, 3:45 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, Remco has basically said all there is to say.
>
> I did not expect DT to understand extra metadata.  To the contrary:
> I'm expecting DT to play nicely with metadata it does not know.  For
> every tag the DT devs implement, I can ask for anoher one — that's
> exactly the opposite of KISS and forces the implementation of
> everything into DT.
>
> It might not even be about metadata.  I'm testing how DT cooperates
> with external tools without replicating them.
>
> So triggering a reload of a changed XMP should incorporate changes in
> everything DT understands, e.g., time, author, just like the reload DT
> offers on restart when an XMP file has changed.  It should not add new
> tables to the database.
>
> I'm not sure about what architecture Michael envisions precisely.  But
> the tools I'm asking for are already present in DT, I just need to
> trigger one step from Lua.
>
> How?
>

Lets try removing the image from the database, then importing it to see if
that forces a sidecar load.


> Cheers
> Stefan
>
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