Lightroom Classic 13.2 for Mac no longer automatically creates or saves to xmp files

Question

Running Lightroom Classic 13.2, on macOS Sonoma 14.31. I noticed that recently- maybe after the last update- I have to click on the down arrow to force LRC to save changes I make in LRC (stars, labels, etc.) to the associated xmp file, when previously I did not. I have this setting checked to save all changes to xmp:

But LRC seems to ignore it.

Also, today I just downloaded some raw files from a card to LRC exactly as I have been doing for years- I have a preset telling LRC were to put files, what development preset to use, what metadata to add, etc.- yet unlike before, LRC is not creating an xmp file for each downloaded raw file.

If I look on side panel, I see LRC has added metadata & desired development preset, but only seems to have it in the internal catalog, not in an xmp file like before. If I click down arrow (as per above) it finally does create the xmp file, with the information there as well.

I also imported some jpegs, with no develop preset or metadata to be added. They also all required me to manually click down arrow, whereas before unless I made a change, I would not have to manually save them.

Has anyone else noticed this change in behavior? Is there some new setting I need to change?

Thanks.

Robert Ripps · Accepted Answer

I looking in the forum once again to see if anyone was having this issue, I found this post from 2022:

“I had the same issue. My Catalog Settings were all set up for XMP data to be automatically written, however, for some reason, it was not creating the XMP sidecar files. I solved this by clicking on the name plate, and then pausing and unpausing the "saving xmp" option that is available. As soon as I did that, xmp files were once again being created, even though i had never paused the function. It appears there might be a bug somewhere in the recent update.“

As soon as I looked, I saw that save to XMP was indeed “paused” , and once I clicked, LRC started to save all the changes I have made to files.

To further test, I again imported an image, and this time LRC did indeed create the desired XMP file right away, with no need for saving. I then made a change to the file’s metadata, and again, LRC saved the changes automatically as desired.

Never would have thought to click in that area, to solve the problem! Strange that a “setting” that was not in Preferences could override a something clearly set in Preferences, but there you go…

Per Berntsen · Answer

Try resetting the preferences.The easiest way is using Method 3 as described here:https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/setting-preferences-lightroom.html

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