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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 525689" data-attributes="member: 9240">Was stitching some panoramas in Lightroom over the weekend and when I went to check something in the folder the original Raw images were in I noticed something completely unexpected - XMP sidecar files were created for each of the panos segments.&nbsp; I have Lr set up to store edits in the catalog so I wouldn't expect Lr to have created them.&nbsp; I'm guessing they're necessary for the stitch process (borrowed from Ps?), but I would have liked them to have been cleaned up afterward because one of these days the images in those folders will get archived off and I'm going to wind up with sidecar files that I'm not going to know or remember anything about and that's going to get confusing when I start to move catalog images off to my external drives and wind up with non-empty directories because the XMP files are still there!!&nbsp; There's no way I'd know where they came from if I hadn't stumbled on this.Anyone else run into this?&nbsp; I'm definitely not digging the new feature.&nbsp; I haven't tested it yet to see if it happens with the HDR merge as well, so if you've done that please report back.&nbsp; What I now don't know is if I go and do additional edits on the pano piece-parts will the edit wind up in the catalog or are they in the XMP?&nbsp; If it's the sidecar then I lose all that when I move the image without it - and I'll do that because I don't know if it's there.&nbsp; If they create the sidecars for use by the process why can't Lr simply check my preferences and if I don't create sidecars as a default just delete them when it's done?&nbsp; PITA.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 525689, member: 9240"] Was stitching some panoramas in Lightroom over the weekend and when I went to check something in the folder the original Raw images were in I noticed something completely unexpected - XMP sidecar files were created for each of the panos segments. I have Lr set up to store edits in the catalog so I wouldn't expect Lr to have created them. I'm guessing they're necessary for the stitch process (borrowed from Ps?), but I would have liked them to have been cleaned up afterward because one of these days the images in those folders will get archived off and I'm going to wind up with sidecar files that I'm not going to know or remember anything about and that's going to get confusing when I start to move catalog images off to my external drives and wind up with non-empty directories because the XMP files are still there!! There's [I]no way[/I] I'd know where they came from if I hadn't stumbled on this. Anyone else run into this? I'm definitely not digging the new [I]feature[/I]. I haven't tested it yet to see if it happens with the HDR merge as well, so if you've done that please report back. What I now don't know is if I go and do additional edits on the pano piece-parts will the edit wind up in the catalog or are they in the XMP? If it's the sidecar then I lose all that when I move the image without it - and I'll do that because I don't know if it's there. If they create the sidecars for use by the process why can't Lr simply check my preferences and if I don't create sidecars as a default just delete them when it's done? PITA. [/QUOTE]

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