Removing Edited Images & Remembering...

I'm looking for the following solution:



I would like to

1- edit raw or jpg files in lightroom,

2- remove the images from the lightroom library.

3- import them back when needed with changes and ratings, basically with all the changes being remembered.



How can I make import back the images, including the changes I made to them?



Please help %26amp; email me too if possible.



Thanks,



Alexander

photorama [at] gmail.com
Removing Edited Images %26 Remembering...
Write the metadata to an xmp ''sidecar'' file (see metadata menu), then remove the image from the library. Keep the sidecar file with the image file. When you reimport the image, LR will load the metadata from the sidecar.



foster



note that if your raw files are dng, then you won't get a sidecar. LR will write the data directly into the dng file. Most people find this convenient, though a few purists don't like anything written into their dng files.
Removing Edited Images %26 Remembering...
How do I write the metadata into a separate file?



I've changed the following:

1. In the File Management preferences, do any of the following:

To write adjustments and settings metadata to XMP, select Automatically Write Changes Into XMP.



I can't see the xmp file in the folders where the images are.



Do I have to do something else?



Thank you,



Alexander.

Could you describe what you mean by removing images from the library? To some it means deleting from the database and trashing the actual image; to others it means removing the info and pointer to the file in LR but leaving the image in place; still others - possibly you- mean it to remove the images but leave the database and Previews.
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Sure, I mean deleting the image from the database and previews but leaving the original file on the hard drive.

If I was deleting the images completely why would I care to store the changes I made on them :) LOL?



Thank you in advance for any help.

Do as Foster says - go up into the 'Metadata Menu' (top of window) and select 'Export xmp to file'. LR will then do this to files that you have selected (highlighted) in the Library. You should then see the xmp files in the same location as your original files - they will have the same name.

Maybe the reason you are not seeing them is because the ones you have done so far are jpeg files. With these the xmp data is stored WITHIN the jpeg file itself. This also applies to dng's as mentioned earlier. Only RAW files have the sidecar files you see seperate.

Hi Alan,

your statement is misleading because DNG files are also Raw Files. JPEG, DNG and (i think) TIFF files store XMP within the original file, NEF, CR2 and other native camera dependent RAW file formats remain untouched resulting in a XMP sidecar file.

%26gt;''DNG files are also Raw Files.''



I think this is a matter of semantics. For many, ''raw'' files are those coming out of a camera (and yes, there are some cameras that now use DNG as their raw format). Remember, DNG files can contain a raw file as well as the DNG format of the original raw data. LR doesn't provide an option to store the original raw in DNG but ACR does.



- Pierre

%26gt; If I was deleting the images completely why would I care to store the changes I made on them LOL?



There are situations where one might be deleting the images from the HD for various reasons, not the least among them space.



Can you describe your reason for leaving the images but deleting the database?

Imagine an event with 3000 images.

Multiply that by about 50/year, That's 150,000 images.



I have a fast computer and even now the Lightroom is slow and crashing many times with only 10,000 images in it.



That's why I want to edit and then delete from the lightroom after I edit but have an option to reimport the images with the corrections, ratings, etc. at a later day.

Hopefully in a near future, Adobe will improve the lightroom to the point where it can function well with a hundreds of thousands of images with no problem.

If that is all you are looking to accomplish, keeping the numbers down, just start a new Library each year and you can always open an old one with everything there, if you wish.



Don



Don Ricklin, MacBook 1.83Ghz Duo 2 Core running 10.4.9 %26amp; Win XP, Pentax *ist D

http://donricklin.blogspot.com/

Bingo-



What Don says should accomplish your end goal and provide much more!

I just deleted 150 images by mistake. I pulled the files out of the trash with their xmp files.

When I re-import these files into LM the editing I did on the files is not re-importing with the RAW files.



I also went to Metadata%26gt;XMP%26gt;import from files. LM does an operation, but the edits made to the files still do not appear.



PLEASE HELP !



Scott

Scott, do you have ''automatically write changes to xmp'' set in preferences? If not then I guess that they weren't written and will be lost. Not ideal for you but better than losing the files completely!!