I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, so posting here before registering a bug report.
I’m trying to keep my photos 100% unmodified/original, ie. I want the file hash to never change, any any edits, tags, gps data or whatever should be saved to xmp sidecar files.
Now I’m trying to rotate photos in the thumbnail view, but no matter how I configure the metadata settings, it seems to either only save the rotation settings to the database, or to both the image metadata and the xmp sidecar.
Settings/Metadata/Sidecars
“Write to sidecar files” is set to “Write to XMP sidecar only”
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Settings/Metadata/Rotation - “Write flag to metadata if possible” ← checked
This causes the rotation data to be written to both the image itself, and to the xmp sidecar. -
Settings/Metadata/Rotation - “Write flag to metadata if possible” ← unchecked
This causes the rotation data to be written only to the database, not to the image metadata or to the xmp sidecar.
What I want is that the rotation data is only written to the xmp sidecar (and the database, or not, dosen’t really matter), but not to the image metadata to keep the files 100% original.
Is this a bug, have I misconfigured something, or is this how it’s supposed to work?