No, I could see the window, it just was missing the left side and the right side so I could see through them and where the selected image would be, it was just blank gray.   I did try to look at settings when it opened into Photoshop, but the settings window was invisible when I opened it as well. ... View more

Started having the glitch again – opening images in camera raw, but I don’t see the images nor do I see the vertical film strip. Tried fully opening an image, which launched Photoshop, but Photoshop seems to be having the same issue- So I can’t see if it’s using metal or not because the main Photoshop window is not visible. I guess I will have to restart the computer and see how long I can use it before this happens again… ... View more

So it sounds like you’re saying once I’ve renamed the files and saved them in LRC, the acr data is going into the Lightroom database, but if I open the file directly from the Finder, Photoshop is able to find that same data in the corresponding xmp file, correct? So I could trash all the acr files at some point. Although strangely as I mentioned one old acr file is about 40 MB but the corresponding xmp file is only 181K, yet in the Photoshop ACR window, it is showing my retouching properly. ... View more

My workflow is to download the card using Lightroom Classic, applying a development, preset, as well as adding my copyright metadata, then doing a basic edit to get rid of any obviously bad images. At this stage, Lightroom Classic has created the xmp files, based on my camera naming convention.   I then go to Bridge, do my exposure, color, balance, and any other corrections that need to be done as I find it faster and easier than doing this in LRC. I then go back to LRC, saving all the changes back into the database, then do a tighter edit, again deleting some images, adding numerical ratings, and usually my image specific metadata. I then do a batch rename of all the files, which rename the corresponding xmp files.   I usually do not look to see if any acr files are created, and usually discover them later if I happen to look in the folder I downloaded the images to. I’m guessing they are being created when I’m doing my retouching in ACR through Bridge, before renamed the files.   It seems like if I do any further retouching on an image using ACR, it is creating a new acr file, but using the renamed file convention. Looking in the computer, the oldest acr file I can find is from August 9, 2023. ... View more

I always do a batch rename in Lightroom Classic, which also renames the xmp files at the same time. Thanks. ... View more

I am still getting these “orphaned” acr files – looking at the unchanged original file names and trying to pair them up with my renamed images, it does seem like they are images that I had done some retouching in Adobe camera raw while in Bridge, but not sure why there’s separate acr files or why they were not renamed with my new file names. Most are small, although images where I’ve done more retouching are usually larger, but I have one that’s almost 40 MB in size, and all I did was retouch out a tiny edge of the building against the solid blue sky.   I am wondering if it is it safe to delete them? I have Lightroom set to save all changes into XMP files, and I’ve also manually saved everything in Lightroom.   ... View more

I checked, Photoshop is using Metal, but of course I can't check that if I'm just working in Camera Raw. CR till seems to be working, so maybe was just a glitch. ... View more

Hmm, let me study this link- not familiar with looking at GPU. I will say at no time did I open any of these images into Photoshop completely- I was just making my basic raw adjustments, and then moving onto the next images, without opening them into Photoshop.   Also, I restarted the computer and so far ACR seems to be working normally, but we’ll see what happens. ... View more

Would be great if this ability also existed when using the masking panel for adjustments… ... View more

I disabled CC for an image I am working on, and when I saved as a jpeg it, no longer gave me a c2paws file. When I add that image, and a few other jpegs to LR, changed the dates, then saved, I am no longer getting XMP files created. So I guess I will just keep CC disabled for a while until they work the bugs out. ... View more

"Your search - c2paws site:helpx.adobe.com - did not match any documents."   Same for Chrome and Firefox... ... View more

I could not get this link to work. I tried searching on the Adobe help site, but it did not come up with anything. The c2paws files were not really the issue, but… I never saw a c2paws until yesterday, although now strangely every time I export an image that has Content Credentials enabled as a JPEG I’m getting them, even though I did not before yesterday, and I had updated to the current version of Photoshop back on 12/20/24.   Yes, I am on version 26.2.0 for macOS.   As per the suggested fix, I quit & relaunched Photoshop, reopened a PSD file, set History & Content Credentials to none, saved the file as a jpeg, but it still is creating that c2paws file. I then opened the fly out palette, and I see this file does have CC enabled even though the Photoshop preferences have CC turned off. I disabled CC for this PSD file, saved it as a jpeg again, and it did not create the c2paws file.   I then turned back on the PS settings for both, but left it off for that file, saved as a jpeg, but it still gave me the c2paws file, so that first fix did not work for me.   I am also unclear about the difference between tuning on CC in Photoshop settings vs enabling for a specific image- I would think even if turned on globally, if I have it disabled for a specific image it would not save the CC to the file- or try to.   I quit Photoshop, moved the preferences folder and re-launched Photoshop. I opened a new file and saved it as a JPEG which did not create the c2paws file. I’ve then turned on the CC in the Photoshop settings again, saving it as a JPEG and again it did not create the c2paws file. Finally, I enable CC for that image and save it again as a JPEG but this time it did save a c2paws file.   I again tried the suggestion of turning off CC in Photoshop settings and opening the image and saved it as a JPEG, which did not create the c2paws file. Then I enabled both in the Photoshop settings, saved the file again, but it still is not creating the c2paws file.   I then quite Photoshop & restored my old preferences. ... View more

As do I if I follow version 2. ... View more

Sorry, I misread that part- I can try it, but that is not a normal part of my workflow, nor is it something that I did that created those XMP files…   Okay, used Lightroom to save a raw file as a jpeg, readded jpgs back to Lightroom, changed date, saved, and it did create an XMP file. ... View more

Followed your directions- after step 2, exporting from Photoshop created a matching .c2paws file. After step 5, manually saving the imported jpeg, no XMP file was created.   Also tried in Photoshop settings, changing “Enable for saved documents with Content Credentials” to “Enable for new and saved documents with Content Credentials”, then followed other steps, but after saving Lightroom also does not create an XMP file. Lastly, tried changing Photoshop settings, from “Publish to Content Credentials cloud” to “Attached to file (JPG and PNG)”, still no XMP file. ... View more

I opened 2 new raw files, combined them and exported as a jpeg from Photoshop. I did another variation, and exported it as well. Then I did a third variation, but turned on contact credentials in the palate, and exported the image as a JPEG as well. In the export location, for the last file only, I suddenly have a c2paws sidecar file! Never saw one of those before.   And then dropped all three of the JPEGs into Lightroom, updated the File Creation Date, but Lightroom did not create an XMP file for any of them. Later, I manually “saved” all 3, but none of them created an XMP file. ... View more

Yes, I have LR set to “Save Metadata To File and Automatically Write Changes To XMP.” So if make any changes in LR, it writes them to the files.   I see that the one with the XMP sidecar has that last saving step from LRC in 2025, which the other does not. But not sure why the files are different, as they were treated the same in LRC. The only thing I did in Lightroom, other than adding them, was to Edit Capture Time to Change to file creation date for each image, which I did to all 26 images. Of those 26 jpegs, other ones created from different images do not seem to have created XMP files when I added them, yet as far as I know, they were treated the exact same way in Photoshop, and in Lightroom when the raw files were imported.   So, going back to your earlier explanation, that one jpeg had metadata saved to it from Photoshop, and one didn’t, I am also not sure why they would differ, as I used the same images in each jpeg, and created a series of derivative images one after another, but of the 10 I created in that series, only 7 had metadata saved into the files, and 3 did not.   As an experiment, I created another variation, using the two original raw files, saving them as a JPEG, and adding them into Lightroom, where when I changed the Capture Time to File Creation Date, Lightroom saved the change to the JPEG, creating an XMP file. So again, I’m not sure why, some images have some sort of metadata written into the JPEGs and some don’t. I then discarded the XMP file, went back to Lightroom and manually saved the JPEG – I’ve made no subsequent changes to it, so Lighroom shouldn’t saved anything, as there’s nothing new to save, yet Lightroom did create a new XMP file next to JPEG. When I clicked on the JPEG in Lightroom, and manually saved it again, it updated the save time in the XMP file, but again, nothing is changing in the JPEG, so not sure what actually is being saved to that XMP file   I will try again, using some different images, and see if the resulting jpegs, when added to Lightroom, also generate XMP files. I guess if I can’t figure it out, I can always just delete the extraneous XMP files, but just can’t seem to understand why they’re being created in the first place. Thanks. ... View more

Okay, trying to wrap my head around what you’re saying here, maybe I’m not fully grasping everything but…   When you say, the last recorded action was listed as …Metadata > Save Metadata To file or the catalog setting Automatically Write Changes Into XMP” is that the only that was metadata written into the file (not including normal EXIF, etc)? Or are there other entries?   I’m guessing that action was from when I added keywords to the base image when it was in Lightroom, and it automatically saved that metadata, but since I used the same base image to create all of the final images that I then saved from Photoshop as JPEGs, I’m not sure why some would have that metadata that would cause Lightroom to not write other metadata into the file, thereby creating an XMP file, and some would not.   And I am not sure why Lightroom is attempting to save metadata to the jpegs when I added them, since all I did was add the jpegs to my catalog, but not add any metadata, apply presets, etc. after adding them, or save them.   Just a little background on my workflow– I use Lightroom Classic to download the original raw files and import them into LRC’s catalog, applying develop settings, and basic metadata, which is saved in each corresponding XMP file. I then manually save the raw files, rate them and possibly delete some at that point, again, saving the files. I then go to Adobe Camera Raw to make any adjustments to the files, then go back to LRC to renumber the files, and save all the changes back into the XMP files. I then open a couple of the raw files, make a layered file within Photoshop, and then flatten and save them as JPEGs. At some point I take a bunch of those JPEGs and import them into LRC, but do not add any develop settings or metadata at that point. It was when I was doing that, that I noticed that some had created XMP files and some had not. ... View more

OK, I put copies of the three files here – and renamed them so they make sense as to which is which.   I have Photoshop Content Credentials set as follow, which I enabled before I created these images: ... View more

Yes, all I created all the jpegs in Photoshop, some possibly with content credentials enabled, but the .XMP files were not created when I exported the jpegs, nor were they created when exporting from LRC (I imported in LRC only), but only today when I added them to the LRC catalog. And there seems to be no rhyme or reason to them, as some images have XMP files some don’t. ... View more

I have LRC set to create .XMP files when I import raw images, applying develop settings and metadata to them, and have those changes/additions automatically written into the XMP files, but now it seems that LRC has started creating XMP files for some of some JPG images I just added to the catalog. For 26 files I added, it created .XMP files for 7 of them, even though I did not do anything to the files in Lightroom other than Edit Capture Time to Change to file creation date for each image to all 26, which never caused Lightroom to create an .XMP file before.   Previously adding JPG images to LRC’s catalog did not create the .XMP files in the folder they reside in, only adding or applying changes to raw files.   So not sure if something has changed with how Lightroom Classic treats JPG files, or if I have accidentally changed some setting somewhere.   Thanks.   Lightroom Classic 14.1.1, macOS 14.7.2 ... View more

Okay, I quit Lightroom, deleted the preferences, restarted Lightroom, could see that my righthand panels had changed location. I then downloaded an image from a card, but experienced the exact same behavior- LRC did not create the desired XMP file automatically, and instead gave me the down arrow requiring me to manually save the image, thereby creating the XMP file.   And every time I made a change to the image’s metadata, I again got the down arrow signifying I needed to save the changes. So unfortunately, it is not a corrupted preference that I can tell. I guess I will just have to live with seeing the down arrows and having to constantly manually save every time I update the metadata or other changes to a file(s). ... View more

Okay, I will try those last two suggestions, and report back next time I import images into Lightroom. Thanks.  ... View more

Thanks for the suggestion, but I feel like resetting everything, then trying to restore all my settings is a bit like throwing out the baby with the bathwater… Don’t want to try to solve one problem, but then create several more? ... View more