Classic not reading xmp files created in Desktop

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February 26, 2025
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In Lightroom CC I would move RAW photos from my local drive to cloud in order to use the cloud presets. After I was done editing, I would "archive" them back to my local drive. This would save the xmp file to my hard drive. I want to open these files in Lightroom Classic to do some further edits on the RAW photos, but it's not reading the xmp file. What am I doing wrong?

I am able to get the edits if I leave them in cloud and make a new catalogue that snycs to cloud, but I don't want all those photos sitting in the cloud.

I tried syncing the local file catalogue. That didn't do anything. Neither did "Read metadata from file."

Windows

thekohlervillagerAuthor

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Building standard previews on images did the trick.

I just KNEW I would figure it out AFTER posting it here. Whatever works, I guess.

thekohlervillagerAuthor

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Okay, I discovered the xmp files are read if I open the photos in the Develop module. When I go back to library view, sometimes the edits stay visable in the thumbnails, sometimes they don't.

I did have "Embedded and Sidecar" chosen for the previews when importing.

thekohlervillagerAuthor

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I figured out what's causing the issue, just don't know if it can be remedied.

It's because I made several duplicates of each photo in the cloud so I could try several different cloud presets. When I archived them to local, it saved them with suffixes like -2, -3, etc. Those are the ones that won't allow me to write the edits to the photo when opening them in Classic. I'm guessing they're the same as virtual copies.

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