On page 69 in "Real World Camera Raw with Photoshop CS", Bruce Fraser
says:
"If you inadvertently saved your settings in the Camera Raw database
when you wanted sidecars, or vice versa, the only way to get what you
wanted is to change the preference setting in Camera Raw and then
open each image in Camera Raw and click update (hold down Option/Alt
to make the OK button change to the Update button). Root canal
therapy sans anaesthesia compares favorably with doing this to a
folder of several hundred images, so instead create an action that
simply opens the files and closes them without saving, and then let
it run overnight. ..."
A correction to what I said earlier:
Bruce also says that the RAW files are indexed by content, not name,
so the settings in the CR database should stick around on the same
computer (assuming only PS CS/CR 2.4, I imagine) but are not
transportable to another computer.
I imagine a standalone tool could be written to do the job, presuming
that someone figured out what content criteria CR was using for its
indexing, etc, but I haven't seen one.
Godfrey
On Apr 12, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
A tool? I don't know offhand, but I vaguely recall reading about a
way to
do this recently. I don't recall if it was in a book I have here
or on one
of the Adobe User-to-User forums. I'll take a look later tonight or
tomorrow AM and see what can be found.
From: Rob Studdert
Which leads to the question; is anyone aware of a tool that
will generate a set of sidecar files from the centralized cache file?
