Lightroom XMP Files: Save RAW Edits Without a Catalog file
This is the one setting that I always turn on as soon as I install Lightroom (LR) on any computer: Automatically Write Changes into XMP. This setting makes Lightroom Classic start saving small .xmp files next to your RAW images. These XMP files save the metadata and RAW processing settings which are associated with the image. There are many uses for these small, seemingly useless files, and we will look into them in this article, and also discuss how they have saved me from tears.
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