So I used Geosetter to tag a bunch of my 5D raw files. I realize after the fact that I did this the wrong way, I turned on writing to XMP files and then overwrote the previous Lightroom settings. Not a big deal since I hadn't done any processing.
I realize now I could have used the "read metadata from file" option instead.
So I just got a new batch of Taiyo Yuden DVD's to back up my last 4 years worth of photos. And I have tons of XMP files to deal with. Traditionally I have been using multiple external harddrives for this, but not backing up XMP's.
How do you all deal with this? Long term I think I have decided to go DNG so the tagging (especially GPS) travels with the file. But I have 4 years worth of Canon RAW's with XMP files for some of the folder but not for others.
Here is what I think I can do:
Everything written to the XMP files should be duplicated in the Lightroom database, so I could just turn off writing to XMP files, delete all XMP files, backup my original RAW's, and then convert to DNG and start a new catalog. In the future I can just convert to DNG and backup the originals.
The main questions here are:
1) Everything in the XMP file is in fact duplicated in the Lightroom database, correct?
2) When I export to DNG all the Lightroom settings should be stored in the file, so when I start a new catalog all the processing will be saved, correct?
