- Lightroom Version Number
- ver. 10.2
- Operating System
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
I have to be missing something I thought I understood.
From day one (LR4) I have never checked the "create XMP box" in Catalog settings. I always shoot RAW and I never use an outside editor, etc. I do at times use Mac Photos to edit pics shot by others when I edit a newsletter but those photos are always in a separate Photos Library and stored on a separate external HD.
However, browsing through my LR photos on my external 4TB drive (which only has LR photos stored on it) I see, for example, two files with the same file number. One is the RAW file and the other is an XMP file.
For example: 1155 RAW, Aug 31, 2016; 1155 XMP Feb.14, 2018. All of my RAW files have XMP's attached and the XMP date is different from that on the RAW files. The files were not edited, printed, etc.
Why the XMP creation, and the different date?
I may have known at one time, but I definitely have forgotten why.
thanks for your insights,
aj
From day one (LR4) I have never checked the "create XMP box" in Catalog settings. I always shoot RAW and I never use an outside editor, etc. I do at times use Mac Photos to edit pics shot by others when I edit a newsletter but those photos are always in a separate Photos Library and stored on a separate external HD.
However, browsing through my LR photos on my external 4TB drive (which only has LR photos stored on it) I see, for example, two files with the same file number. One is the RAW file and the other is an XMP file.
For example: 1155 RAW, Aug 31, 2016; 1155 XMP Feb.14, 2018. All of my RAW files have XMP's attached and the XMP date is different from that on the RAW files. The files were not edited, printed, etc.
Why the XMP creation, and the different date?
I may have known at one time, but I definitely have forgotten why.
thanks for your insights,
aj