That's exactly what I did. (Except I opened JPEG's). I tried MS Word &
WordPad as the text editors & saved as a text. The files are correct as
edited & saved as .xmp's but, no dice, I can't import & overwrite the
original.
I am doing this to try & find a way of getting the HD 55-300 lens info into
the EXIF. The lens ID is there but not the lens info because it obviously is
not in the Camera Raw look up file. I could upgrade to Elements 13 for $100
but to me that is a waste of money.
Using an EXIF editor I can add a lens info tab + the lens name manually &
then Flickr finds it but it still doesn't put it into the Elements so the
Windows EXIF is not the same as the Elements EXIF.
Alan C
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From: Brian Walters
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 8:56 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: ONE FOR THE COMPUTER BOFFINS
Quoting Alan C <[email protected]>:
In Elements 10, I can EXPORT an .xmp sidecar file & edit it with, say,
MSWORD. However, I then cannot get the edited file to overwrite the
original. The IMPORT function doesn't seem to work. If I Re-EXPORT the
original, the edited version is overwritten & the edits are lost.
Any ideas?
I don't have Elements but the problem sounded intriguing so I tried
something similar in Photoshop CC. As both programs use Adobe Camera
Raw to import raw files (albeit, different versions) I would have
expected similar behaviour.
I opened a PEF in CC and exported an xmp sidecar file. I then opened
the xmp in a text editor, changed the contrast setting to something
stupid (+100) and saved the edited file.
Back in CC, I used the 'Load Settings' dialogue (I assume this is the
same as your 'Import Function') to load the edited xmp. The contrast
in the image immediately changed to +100.
I tried the same process in Photoshop CS3 with the same result.
So it seems in Photoshop at least, loading an edited xmp file does
reflect the changes made outside of Photoshop. Why Elements behaves
differently, I really don't know unless, as Igor mentioned, you used
MS Word in a non text editor mode. That certainly doesn't work.
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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