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I have decided they are a necessary evil...
In what way are they evil?
With properly managed XMP files - images on a drive have all metadata (keywords, crops, edits etc) attached through virtue of a tiny file with the same name
Easy to distinguish from the actual files using simple and long available tools in Finder OR Explorer (spotlight, sort by kind, sort by size etc)
A catastrophic loss of your lightroom catalog file and all it's backups (but not the images) would be relatively easy to recover from (you would lose collections and a few other lightroom catalog settings, but image specific data would be intact in those XMP files)
Without properly managed XMP files all you would have is the images exactly as they were when first imported:-O
Last edited on Sun Apr 28th, 2013 18:25 by Doug
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