.xmp files for existing images in LR

[SC Oly User]

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.

[dj_paige]

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

[SC Oly User]

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]

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).