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December 22, 2022
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Purge Metadata from a .PSD on mac?

  • December 22, 2022
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I've been given a PSD and every new Intelligent layer I create in this document adds/duplicates 72Mb of metadata to the file. I've opened File Information and in the XMP metadata window (non-formatted data) it says the metadata is to big to display (otherwise I would try to delete it here). I know I can export as JPG or PNG and remove it that way, but it's not practical for the work I'm doing.
Is there any uncomplicated to remove the metadata on a mac? Thanks

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Correct answer PECourtejoie

Hello, this blog post explains several procedures: https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/06/metadata-bloat-photoshopdocumentancestors.html

 

thank you @Stephen Marsh for the fix!

 

EDIT: 4 seconds of difference between the posts!!!

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PECourtejoie
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December 22, 2022

Hello, this blog post explains several procedures: https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/06/metadata-bloat-photoshopdocumentancestors.html

 

thank you @Stephen Marsh for the fix!

 

EDIT: 4 seconds of difference between the posts!!!

Stephen Marsh
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December 22, 2022

@PECourtejoie – Haha, so close!

 

@Nicodemouse – if you haven't saved/installed script code before, then the following should help:

 

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

 

Stephen Marsh
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December 22, 2022

Many solutions are offered in the following link to remove photoshop:DocumentAncestors metadata:

 

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/06/metadata-bloat-photoshopdocumentancestors.html