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<blockquote data-quote="Fred Kingston" data-source="post: 706054" data-attributes="member: 10742"><p>Lightroom and other RAW file editors are non-destructive editors. When you make changes to the RAW file, those changes are NOT made in the RAW file… the changes are saved in a side-car file or XMP file… If you make edits/changes/saves to any other file format, it saves those changes to the original file, unless you do something to prevent it…</p><p></p><p>If you goto LR’s Catalogue Settings, then to the Metadata tab… you can uncheck the box that says “Automatically Write Changes to XMP”… </p><p></p><p>Unchecking that will then save any changes you make to a NEF file in LR in the catalogue instead of creating all those XMP files…</p><p></p><p>If you frequently use a RAW editor and frequently move files, you will need to move/keep track of the XMP files also. That’s a real PITA… Saving the changes in the Catalogue is much more efficient.</p><p></p><p>If you move a NEF file without its associated XMP file, you will not see any changes you may have made…</p><p></p><p>If you frequently use PS for your editing…It’s more efficient to use LR as your file manager and then edit in PS from within LR… then when you save changes in PS, instead of creating an XMP file, it saves the changes back to LR, which then gets saved in the LR catalogue…</p><p></p><p>If you shoot several hundred photos a month, you’ll save a tremendous amount of disk space and aggravation by eliminating XMP files by using the LR catalogue…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fred Kingston, post: 706054, member: 10742"] Lightroom and other RAW file editors are non-destructive editors. When you make changes to the RAW file, those changes are NOT made in the RAW file… the changes are saved in a side-car file or XMP file… If you make edits/changes/saves to any other file format, it saves those changes to the original file, unless you do something to prevent it… If you goto LR’s Catalogue Settings, then to the Metadata tab… you can uncheck the box that says “Automatically Write Changes to XMP”… Unchecking that will then save any changes you make to a NEF file in LR in the catalogue instead of creating all those XMP files… If you frequently use a RAW editor and frequently move files, you will need to move/keep track of the XMP files also. That’s a real PITA… Saving the changes in the Catalogue is much more efficient. If you move a NEF file without its associated XMP file, you will not see any changes you may have made… If you frequently use PS for your editing…It’s more efficient to use LR as your file manager and then edit in PS from within LR… then when you save changes in PS, instead of creating an XMP file, it saves the changes back to LR, which then gets saved in the LR catalogue… If you shoot several hundred photos a month, you’ll save a tremendous amount of disk space and aggravation by eliminating XMP files by using the LR catalogue… [/QUOTE]
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