saving 'develop' edits to folders?

[boarder247]

hello
when i edit in developer within lightroom, then move from the 'previous import' list to the folders which hold different projects by dragging them into the folders i have imported from the hard disk, it saves only the original files, and not my new edits.
do i have to batch export everything i edit in lightroom to be able to use it in non adobe applications?? tried save metadata to file for these images, and then in finder they are no longer available for quickview (spacebar or command y) and finder quits. futhermore when these files, with the updated metadata, are dropped into an iwork file, they are not recognised as jpeg's anymore. but do work in photoshop, and i assume other adobe applications because the embedded metadata was designed to be compatible with adobe. how can i have the 'develop' editing i am doing in lightroom transfer to the folders i want to have these images saved in without laboriously exporting them and having saved each image twice? does lightroom have a way i can do this?

 

[MBehrens]

The answer to your question is yes, the only way to "Save" your changes is to export to another file. LR is a none destructive editing environment, the only way that an on disk image file would be altered is by exporting and overwriting the file - this would be really confusing because LR would still have the edit settings and would apply them to the now changed image file.

You seem to be a bit confused with collections and folders. Collections, Previous Import included, are simply a collection of pointers to the image files residing in the folders. Trying to move an image in a collection to a folder is a bit backward - the file already exists in the folder. Not sure, but moving an image from a collection to a folder different from the one it currently reside, may move the file to the new folder (not tested)

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Finder (and therefore other Apple programs) quitting when viewing an image with Develop data written to xmp is a known Leopard bug, and one that Apple will hopefully fix before too much longer.

If you want the adjusted jpegs to be used in other software, you do need to export, just as if you'd made the adjustments in PS, you'd need to save an image file.

If you only want to drop the original jpeg into iWorks, go into catalog settings and turn off writing develop settings to xmp, which is the bit that Leopard has a problem with. That doesn't strip out existing develop settings though, so it won't help any files that are already making it quit.

 

[boarder247]

thanks.

thank you both.
i suppose it is not a huge amount of work to export these files. :roll:
you dont know of a quick shortcut to ensure my harddrive is not as disorganized as my brain, do you? seems that they reflect eachother.
just kidding.
thanks again.