Bails
New Member
- Joined
- Feb 24, 2019
- Messages
- 8
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version: 8.2 [ 1204643 ]
- Operating System
- Windows 10
I processed a bunch of NEF files in Adobe Lightroom Classic CC (v8.2 - Feb 2019 version) on my Win10 PC, and worked up some proofs for a client on 15 Feb. All of the NEFs were duly given their corresponding XMP file, but they’re all dated 15 Feb despite the fact that I’ve made changes to many of the NEFs since then.
Over the next 5 days I did a lot of retouching, and backed up my images and catalogues at least 10 times (yep, I'm a bit mad with backups!) but those XMP files remained dated 15 Feb, both in my live catalogue and my backups.
I have since used RESET on some of the images with the intention of reworking them, but each NEF’s corresponding XMP file still shows a timestamp of 15 Feb. Shouldn’t subsequent changes made to the NEFs be written to the XMP files? I’ve got my preferences set to automatically write changes into XMP, and I’ve tried using Metadale | Save Metadata to File, to force a save, but that timestamp just never changes.
Naturally, this issue came about when I wanted to revert a NEF to a later set of changes than the original, and found that the backup XMP I wanted was exactly the same as the original one. Is this normal behaviour now? Because I’ve definitely had XMP files update with changes made and have been able to swap XMP files from backups before!
Over the next 5 days I did a lot of retouching, and backed up my images and catalogues at least 10 times (yep, I'm a bit mad with backups!) but those XMP files remained dated 15 Feb, both in my live catalogue and my backups.
I have since used RESET on some of the images with the intention of reworking them, but each NEF’s corresponding XMP file still shows a timestamp of 15 Feb. Shouldn’t subsequent changes made to the NEFs be written to the XMP files? I’ve got my preferences set to automatically write changes into XMP, and I’ve tried using Metadale | Save Metadata to File, to force a save, but that timestamp just never changes.
Naturally, this issue came about when I wanted to revert a NEF to a later set of changes than the original, and found that the backup XMP I wanted was exactly the same as the original one. Is this normal behaviour now? Because I’ve definitely had XMP files update with changes made and have been able to swap XMP files from backups before!