The .xmp sidecar file tracks all the settings you made with Camera Raw unless you tell Camera Raw to store settings in it's own centralized cache. Thats in the Camera Raw options menu. Without one or the other, you'll lose all the RAW editing parameters you might have spent time creating.
I don't know why you'd want to do that. .XMP sidecar files to me are preferable to having CR store these setting in the centralized cache, and easier to manipulate if you so choose. If you converted PEF files to DNG, the XMP data would be stored in the DNG files themselves, but PEF files are considered read-only ... that's why Camera Raw puts the settings into sidecar files. Godfrey On May 11, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Joseph Tainter wrote: > Every time I convert from RAW, CS2 insists on creating a second file > with the extension "xmp". > > Can someone tell me why CS2 does this? > > Can I delete these files? > > Can I prevent Photoshop from doing this? > > Thanks, > > Joe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
