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Before you insert any card, make two important changes in Lightroom:

 

1) Lightroom > Preferences .... > General  > x in "Treat JPEG files next to raw files as separate photos" (should show DNG and JPG next to each other).

 

2) Lightroom > Catalog Settings .... > Metadata > x in "Automatically write changes into XMP" (ensures that edits, stars and all is in the DNG files and JPG files and not only in the catalog (this way if you loose the catalog, you can drag the files into a new catalog and still see stars, edits, crops, etc). 

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2) Lightroom > Catalog Settings .... > Metadata > x in "Automatically write changes into XMP" (ensures that edits, stars and all is in the DNG files and JPG files and not only in the catalog (this way if you loose the catalog, you can drag the files into a new catalog and still see stars, edits, crops, etc). 

 

What if I've just done this for the first time?  Will it apply all historical edits, flags, stars....etc I've made to my DNG files I've previously imported?  i.e. can and will it sync after the fact?

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What if I've just done this for the first time?  Will it apply all historical edits, flags, stars....etc I've made to my DNG files I've previously imported?  i.e. can and will it sync after the fact?

I believe that it does.  Writing to XMP transfers  info stored in the LR catalog directly into the image metadata. If you want to check if previous edits were copied, change the setting to write to XMP, once the info is written, create a new catalog and import a few images from the previous catalog. The changes you did should be there.

 

In my case it took a while for the program to write to XMP the existing info I had, so I assume that previous edits are also recorded.

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What if I've just done this for the first time?  Will it apply all historical edits, flags, stars....etc I've made to my DNG files I've previously imported?  i.e. can and will it sync after the fact?

Yes it does. It works on it on and off for a while but will eventually get it written to all files where the original is present. 

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