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April 18, 2019
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.xmp files for existing images in LR

  • April 18, 2019
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Recently, my catalog  became corrupted. Since I do daily back ups I didn't lose anything. However, as and extra layer  of protection I want to use .xmp files as well. Is there a way to easily add .xmp files to existing images that have been processed in LR? I already changed the catalog settings for image processing going forward.

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    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    April 18, 2019

    Select all the photos, then Ctrl-S (on Windows, I don't remember what the equivalent is on a Mac)

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    April 18, 2019

    After asking the question I went to close LR and found it was in the process of creating the xmp files automatically.

    Thanks for your response.

    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
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    April 18, 2019

    CanonPE9user  wrote

    After asking the question I went to close LR and found it was in the process of creating the xmp files automatically.

    Thanks for your response.

    Don't be fooled. Sometimes LR take a while to write image data to the LR Database file. Which will pop up that warning.

    Your best bet is to do what dj_paige suggests and select all and Ctrl + s to make sure LR writes all edits, and some other things, to a sidecar XMP file (and or in the case of some image file formats to a special part of the file itself).

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