>>>>> "Elle" == Elle Stone <ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com> writes:

    Elle> Is there any way to disable the writing of darktable's XMP files? I
    Elle> don't want them written to my archive folder as I use digikam and
    Elle> exiftool to take care of tagging, rating, etc.

    Elle> I really don't want to use darktable's DAM functionality. I don't
    Elle> want darktable to ever write xmp files and especially not in the
    Elle> archive folder where I keep my originals.

    Elle> I use digiKam to locate a raw file and to open it with darktable,
    Elle> but the rendered file is saved elsewhere and it will just confuse
    Elle> things if darktable insists on writing over my existing
    Elle> digikam-generated xmp files, which it just did and apparently has
    Elle> done in the past. So I'm asking how to keep it from happening again.

in the .config/darktable/darktablerc set the following to FALSE
write_sidecar_files=TRUE

Probably this is what you are after


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