XMP file thumbnails in Bridge

[philipcastleton]

Since updating to Bridge 2024 every time I label or rate an image thumbnail in Bridge a XMP thumbnail is created beside the image thumbnail. I have never experienced this and it is a major distraction clogging up

my film strips. How do I turn off seeing the metadata thumbnails?

[gregreser · Accepted solution]

I'm guessing you are working with RAW files. When you add metadata to a RAW file, an XMP sidecar file with the same name is created to store the metadata.

Check to see if View > Show Hidden Files is selected. Turn it off and you should not see the XMP sidecar files.

[philipcastleton]

That's fixed it! Thanks. 

[gregreser]

Great, I'm glad it worked.

Can you please mark the answer correct so we know it is resolved? Thanks.

[dawnmarie2663]

hi im having the same issue but mine is not selected it is s till turned off!!  But everytine I puty a label on an image which i use on all galleries it creates a XMP file and it drives me crazy..but mine is already turned off so now what????  any  other options?