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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: andyptak on May 30, 2020, 07:02:32 pm

Title: No xmp files?
Post by: andyptak on May 30, 2020, 07:02:32 pm

I discovered that a particular folder has no xmp files and even after I tried CTL S to affix Metadata to the files nothing happened. There are a number of shots that I have developed in LR and PS in the folder. Anyone have any ideas?

Title: Re: No xmp files?
Post by: fdisilvestro on May 30, 2020, 07:49:23 pm

Are those images raw, non-DNG files?

Title: Re: No xmp files?
Post by: andyptak on May 30, 2020, 08:20:35 pm

I have dng files some of which have been processed into PSB's.

Title: Re: No xmp files?
Post by: fdisilvestro on May 30, 2020, 08:41:58 pm

DNG files store the metadata inside them, no xmp generated, the same with tiff, psd, psb, etc.

Title: Re: No xmp files?
Post by: andyptak on May 31, 2020, 09:39:10 am

Thanks. I became confused about this while working on old shots from last year - lockdown boredom, trying to find things to do - and I had one folder with .xmp files and one without. I can't remember now, but I think the one with them went through Phase One at some point because there is a sub-folder in there named Phase. Does P1 create them maybe? Can't think how else they could have got there while the other folder had none. All the best.

Title: Re: No xmp files?
Post by: fdisilvestro on May 31, 2020, 03:15:04 pm

Yes, C1 creates xmp sidecars for any type of image when you write metadata back to disk.

IMHO this is not right because most applications willl not be able to read them for files that are supposed to have the metadata inside. For instance, there is no way to force PS or LR to read xmp sidecars for tif or jpg.

Title: Re: No xmp files?
Post by: andyptak on May 31, 2020, 04:53:02 pm

Thanks again Francisco.