woodda Posted March 24, 2007 Share #1  Posted March 24, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I would greatly appreciate some assistance in identifying where lightrrom stores its EXIF, IPTC information. I understand it is not in the files as does Iview but only in sidecar fil XMP files but I cannot find the files. I have looked in the location  \Lightroom\Lightroom Metadata.lrdata  but no files are there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 Hi woodda, Take a look here Ligthroom XMP storage location. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
rwfreund Posted March 24, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted March 24, 2007 I find that (on the windows vista platform) that Lightroom stores its xmp files in the same directory as the original images. hmmm, I wonder what it will do if I give it a dvd to deal with... -bob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodda Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share #3 Â Posted March 24, 2007 Thanks I can see them.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodda Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share #4 Â Posted March 24, 2007 Do you know what info (fields) are embedded with the image and which is in the XMP file. Â Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shootist Posted March 24, 2007 Share #5 Â Posted March 24, 2007 Sorry but isn't the EXIF stored in the image file? Never seen any image processing program that removed it from the file it self and stored that data in a sidecar file. They might make a copy of it but I suspect the same data is in the image file. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsteve Posted March 24, 2007 Share #6 Â Posted March 24, 2007 Darrell: Â I think it stores the data in the database unless you tell it to export xmp data to file. In the case of DNG files, it does not write sidecar files, but writes the XMP to the DNG file when you perform this export. Once any program including Lightroom has written to a Leica DNG, it breaks the DNG structure for use in the Leica supplied RAW programs such as Capture One and Flexcolor (DMR). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodda Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share #7 Â Posted March 24, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) thansk. is the IPTC also stored in the DNG file Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsteve Posted March 24, 2007 Share #8  Posted March 24, 2007 thansk. is the IPTC also stored in the DNG file  Yes, if you tell lightroom to do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodda Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share #9  Posted March 24, 2007 Thanks . Would you be able to confirm how I to do that. Is there a command or action   Many Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsteve Posted March 24, 2007 Share #10 Â Posted March 24, 2007 I just tried it on a file and it worked. Â Keep in mind that once you write to the M8 DNG, Capture one may not be able to open it. Â While in the Library mode, I selected Metatadata/XMP/Export XMP metadata to file. You can also select all the files and do this to all of them in one step. Â I then looked at the file again and its size got slightly bigger. Â When I opened the file, just through clicking on it in Windows Explorer, not through LightRoom, CS2 opened it and when I went to file info, the key word I had entered in Lightroom was in the IPTC field. Â Robert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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