Metadatas from XMP Disappears when XMP is deleted

Sebastian Szyszka

• November 24, 2017 15:17

Hi Everyone,

I'm moving from LR and and trying to come up with a workable substitute for C1's lack of geotagging functionality. Currently what I'm trying to do is this:

Import files into C1
Rename
Cull
Geotag using HoudahGeo and write the geotags to XMP
Reload the metadata in C1

Up to this point, everything works as expected. But after the geotags are imported, I'd like to delete the XMP sidecars. But when I do so, the geotags inside C1 disappear as well.

Is there a way to MOVE the data from the XMPs into C1? It seems as if at the moment the only place that data exists is in the sidecars.

Thanks for any pointers,

-Seb

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  fotojenic777

  • November 24, 2017 16:13

  Hi Seb
  
  I use HoudahGeo too but in CO preferences on the image tab check what your metadata setting is. Mine is set to full sync so I can set metadata before import or after import. I think you might want to try setting “Auto sync sidecar XMP†to Load which I believe does a load from the xmp file into CO. Then you should be able to delete the xmp file. Also consider the checkbox options. Please TEST this on a sample first. Also why do you want to delete the xmp files? You might want to migrate to another software package and then you have all your metadata outside of CO.

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  Sebastian Szyszka

  • November 27, 2017 03:02

  Thank you for the quick response. I went back and tested the different syncing modes, and under "full sync" I still lose the geotagging when XMPs are deleted.
  
  As for why I want to delete the XMPs, well, that turns out to be a bad habit formed from a LR limitation. Ideally, at some point, I wanted to use XMPs for the very same reasons you describe, but LR would only write XMPs for RAW files and write metadata directly into non-RAW files, giving me a wish mash of how the data is stored. I never liked that, so I only used XMPs as a temporary way to transfer information from one piece of software to another. But C1 handles XMPs in a way that I prefer, writing the sidecars for every filetype. So in the end, thanks to you making me look more into it, I am going to start using XMPs full-time.
  
  Thanks again,
  
  -Seb
  

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  fotojenic777

  • November 27, 2017 08:16

  Glad you’re sorted.

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