On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Jens Georg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The first
>> requirement would be a way of exporting all the metadata collected
>> within Shotwell in such a way that it can be associated with the image
>> files and then imported, bearing in mind that I have a lot of RAW
>> images and Shotwell can’t (probably shouldn’t?) write metadata into
>> them.

> And I think I agree that writing meta-data should probably if ever be
> an opt-in function.

I believe a XMP sidecar file is standard practice in this use case.
The sidecar file is in the same directory as the image file and has
the same name but with a .xmp extension. This is used not just for raw
images but anytime it may be undesireable to write data directly to an
image file.
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