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davinl86637869
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March 13, 2020
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What happened to XMP Side Car Files?

  • March 13, 2020
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I do high production photography. mainly product and usually I work between two studios and 4 computers. I leave the raw files on sd cards until they are done. Problem is 12.2 version of camera raw no longer writing XMP files back to where the raw files were created! How can I bring this back? I lost 20 hours of work this week because of this!

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    Lumigraphics
    Legend
    March 17, 2020

    Move the files off the SD cards to a hard drive.

    ssprengel
    ssprengel
    Inspiring
    March 14, 2020

    Was the SD card set to writeprotect so ACR couldn't write XMPs?  Have you checked to see if you have changes set to write to the camera-raw database instead of XMPs?  If it is you shouldn't lose work, just not have the XMPs where the images are.

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    davinl86637869Author
    Participating Frequently
    March 15, 2020

    Good point but no.

    TheDigitalDog
    TheDigitalDog
    Inspiring
    March 14, 2020

    I just tested this, opened a proprietary raw (CR2), made a change, sidecar XMP was saved in the same location. 

    Are you sure you're not dealing with DNGs which would write this into the container? 

    Maybe do a search for the filename plus .xmp? Again, I see the sidecar as expected. 

     

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    davinl86637869Author
    Participating Frequently
    March 15, 2020

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