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jk wrote:
Robert wrote:
Tom, you have misunderstood, I HAVENT LOST ONE KEYWORD because I still had my original catalogue which I moved over from the external drive to the internal drive and re-connected with my images. Not only that but it's backed up too.
The point of my above post was that *some* keywords seem to be somehow attached to the image files, while some are not. This was not due to sidecar files. It was an experiment to help answer your question in post 21, to see if the keywords came with the images or the catalogue. I still don't know the answer, some keywords definitely do, some don't.
I want to try to figure what is different about the ones that do stick.
If you select ALL your images in Lightroom then tell it to write XMP files then do a Metadata sync it will make for all your images xmp files with the keywords and image ratings and your edit data.
I used this feature on Windows as I used iMatch for my cataloguing on Windows.
JK, I don't *WANT* XMP files, I am just trying to understand why some of my NEF files (which don't have sidecar files) seem to carry some keywords with them but not other (more recently applied) keywords.
I don't mind some Photoshop created XMP files but I don't particularly want Lightroom getting in on the act too. It just makes file management that bit harder.
Robert -
In my case, I *don't* want .xmp files and that was the first reason I switched to all keywording in Photo Mechanic...not to mention it has a lot of features that let you work much faster.
JK- I have moved many files from drive to drive (copy and/or moved) and the keywords, ratings and labels all stay intact in the file with no .xmp created. Might be some setting I learned years ago, but that was my prime reason for using the app.
Tom
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