https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434594

--- Comment #2 from Christopher Partington <c...@icanis.com> ---
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #1)
> This is not a bug, but intentional behavior ...
> digiKam recognizes the image again during the scan, based on the unique hash
> in the database. It is therefore the same image, which is why all metadata
> in the database (including the captions, tags labels, etc.) is also applied
> to this picture. So has nothing to do with sidecar. If users rename or move
> pictures externally, digiKam must recognize the picture, otherwise the
> metadata would be lost.
> 
> Maik

Brilliant! Thank you for that. For a brief moment, I did wonder if something
like that was going on but decided it was unlikely. I did have a good nose
around looking for something like this to explain it but drew a blank. Thank
you again for the explanation and I'm sorry to have taken up your time.

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