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RRowe
RRowe
Inspiring
April 10, 2023
Question

Find most up-to-date RAW adjustments between XMP and catalog

  • April 10, 2023
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Ventura 13.3
LR 12.2.1

Ultimately I am wanting to find out where the most up-to-date RAW changes are being stored for a lot of images, in the catalog or an XMP file. I believe I have a mix of both and would like to distinguish and then bring all latest changes into the catalog to be stored there.

I save metadata to my catalog and do NOT have "Automatically write changes into XMP" checked. 
Because of the need to do some naming outside of LR, I selected all images from a shoot and used "Save metadata to file", thus creating XMP files for the RAW images. After renaming SOME of the raw and XMP files outside of LR, I then reimported those files into LR and read the metadata from them, thus bringing the metadata back into the catalog.

The issue is many of those images didn't get altered, but do still have XMP files. Amonst all these images I don't know which files now rely on the XMP and which rely on an XMP. I want to bring everything back into being stored by the catalog, but I don't want to overwrite newer adjustments that are stored in the catalog with older ones in the XMP but just selecting everything and using "Read metadata from file".

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dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
April 10, 2023

I am confused. The latest adjustments are always found in the catalog file. 

 

So the rest of your procedure doesn't make sense to me, nor do I understand the reason why you seem to think your latest edits are not in the catalog.

RRowe
RRoweAuthor
Inspiring
April 10, 2023

@dj_paige your response may be correct for what I need, but in synchronizing a folder I have the option to "Scan for metadata updates". That suggests it's possible metadata could be more up-to-date outside of what the catalog has stored. At least that is how the phrasing comes across to me. Is this not accurate?

 

dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
April 10, 2023

There are situations where other software can change the metadata in your xmp files (or in the xmp section of JPG or TIF files). It specifically says: "... latest changes you may have made to your photos IN OTHER APPLICATIONS". So if that's a possibility, you want to check the box.

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