Lightroom. how to delete xmp?

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April 4, 2022
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Hello. Probably by mistake, I created xmp files for all my RAW instead of storing my edits directly in the Lightroom DB. How to eliminate all these useless files (Win10) ? Thank you.

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dj_paige

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Hello. Probably by mistake, I created xmp files for all my RAW instead of storing my edits directly in the Lightroom DB. How to eliminate all these useless files (Win10) ? Thank you.

By @michelg92799270

Well, it's probably not a meaningful mistake, as the others have mentioned, because your edits are always in the catalog itself, and the edits in the catalog are always what Lightroom Classic uses, regardless of the presence or absence on xmp files. Note the usage of the word "always" there, as there is no option that allows this behavior to be turned off.

The easiest thing to do is to just ignore the xmp files and turn off the feature in Lightroom Classic that automatically creates xmp files.

michelg92799270Author

Participating Frequently

Merci. Mais une indication "Le fichier de metadonnées doit être mis à jour" s'affiche dans l'angle en haut à droite de chaque vignette. Comment je peux corriger pour l'ensemble des photos?
Merci.

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richardplondon

Community Expert

Pour ces photos, d'abord faire ecrire les metadonnees de Lightroom aux fichiers. Ce seront ainsi mis a jour vis a vis Lightroom (qui ne va plus se plaindre de ca). Il faut maintenant laisser ces metadonnees entierement comme il sont, par exemple comme il s'agit de Photoshop et Adobe Camera Raw. Moi, je laisse tout ca a Lightroom Classic de s'en occuper exclusivement - c'est mon portail a eux. S'il ya a des XMP presents ou non, ce n'est rien de mon affaire! Ils ne me feront aucun mal, et pourront en certain circonstances meme me faire du bien.

(Je m'excuse d'oter les accents, et de mon Franglais - j'espere que c'est comprehensible!)

Michael J. Hoffman

Community Expert

All edits are maintained in the database. You can write the xmp to files, but LR keeps it internally as well. So you can just delete the files manually.

Experiment with one or two files just to reassure yourself. Delete or move the xmp files, and observe that your edit history is still intact.

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

Firstly, the edits are always stored first and foremost in the Lightroom catalog database. Storing them additionally in XMP sidecar files is an option that some people use all the time, whereas others never bother.....if they concern you, you can simply manually delete them using File Explorer. Lightroom will continue to show the presence of the XMP sidecar file in the Metadata panel, but it won't be bothered if they are deleted.