Automatically find new .xmp files?

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Hi all,
I have ticked “look for updated XMP files on startup” in the settings, and after getting prompted, existing updated xmp-files can be accepted to be imported into the database.

The question is, how to do this for new xmp files. Say, you have an image example.ARW with accompagnying xmp files example.ARW.xmp and example_01.ARW.xmp, and now you create example_02.ARW.xmp on a different machine. This will not get recognized as an “updated xmp file”, and also the importer will not recognize it as new.

The only solution I found so far is to manually is to do it in the lighttable through “history stack → load sidecar file”, which is cumbersome to do for each new image version.

Is there a lua solution for this?
Should I create a feature request in git?
(Unfortunately my programming skills are quite limited…)

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Remove and reimport the image; a duplicate will be created for each xmp.

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Thanks István,
that is the behaviour I want. So I guess there is no automatic creation of duplicates possible from such newly detected xmp files

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The search looks at the files in the database and then looks to see if the xmp has edits. It is not scanning all of the folders to search for new xmp.

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