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XMP Sidecar FilesDoes Lightroom remove them with deleted image files

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Posted by Robert: Thu Apr 4th, 2013 16:20

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As I mentioned in another thread I am reorganising my image files.

I have also separated my UV/IR, Work and Botanic images from my general interest photography.

I am now down to about 8,200 images, having deleted many repetitive and substandard images.

Unlike Photoshop, Lightroom does not seem to create visible XMP sidecar files. I haven't come across any orphaned XMP sidecar files from my deleting image files via Lightroom but without opening every folder I can't be sure.

Is there a cheap or free tool to scan for orphaned XMP files? Or some clever technique i can employ to seek them out with searches?

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Posted by jk: Thu Apr 4th, 2013 17:25

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If you want LR to create xmp sidecar files then you just need to select the option to do so. It is very flexible and allows the changes data to be maintained in either its database or in xmp files. My preference is to have xmp files as these hold keyword and other data that can be used by other applications.
The xmp files can be kept in the same directory as the image files (my preference) or in a central directory.

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Posted by Robert: Thu Apr 4th, 2013 19:29

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Perhaps I din't explain properly in my post, I don't *want* XMP sidecar files, my concern is having deleted multitudes of NEF image files I may have some orphan XMP files remaining in folders and while I haven't actually seen any yet I don't feel like scouring hundreds of folders looking for them.

I have Lightroom set to retain the EXIF, keywords and edits to images within the image file, I think. I can start a new library with a set of image files which have previously been in a Lightroom catalogue and they seem to bring their edits and keywords with them.

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Posted by jk: Fri Apr 5th, 2013 04:43

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Xmp files are relatively small approx 4kb but can go to 16kb. Since they take up relatively little space I wouldnt worry about the odd stray one but agree if you have lots then it does add up over a large catalogue of images.

If you want to find orphans quickly the in Finder, select Arrange Files by Name. This pairs the NEF and Xmp files. If you then visually scan the directory if you see two xmp files next to each other then one is an orphan.

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Posted by Robert: Fri Apr 5th, 2013 07:13

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Thanks JK, I agree I am not worried about the odd XMP but I don't really want droves of them, I will try the search idea.

I have read about file cleaners, Clean Sweep used to be the one but I have never used them in OSX.

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