![]() dop sidecar and as Photo Supreme manages virtual copies for different purposes e.g. I haven’t tried it yet but I gather the Photo Supreme DAM that I occasionally use can read some parts of the. My questions here on the forum are an attempt to understand ‘why?’ I’m doing things as I develop my new workflow. That was back in the very early days of Lightroom (I started with LR) and may have reflected the development stage of the software at that time. As I was working alone on one machine I never went the sidecar route. When I was using Lightroom I didn’t use sidecars as I was advised that they could cause problems and that unless I wanted to move files to other Lightroom installations on a regular basis I would be better off backing up the LR catalogue regularly. I’m unsure whether that has any bearing at all on the sidecar question but it’s something that is always at the back of my mind with PL. I’m aware that in the past I’ve run into trouble with PL where I’ve done something to the file that causes PL to refuse to read the file because presumably I’ve done something to it in a third party app that it doesn’t like. I stopped using FastRawViewer and am taking extreme care with my file renaming using Name Mangler although I haven’t encountered any problems with that yet.ĭo you know what happens if a file has multiple sidecars?! dop sidecars unchecked and relying on the PL database which as you point out is not without its disadvantages. However that produced its OWN xmp sidecar too! Having 3 programmes that could potentially have their own sidecar file was beginning to alarm me so I retreated to having the Correction Settings for. Also I used to use an app called FastRawViewer which was a good way of culling photos. However I know that Photo Supreme can also produce its OWN xmp sidecar files so that should the user want to move to another app then all of the hierarchical keywording etc can travel with it. These seem to be good reasons to use the. I presume that those edits are readable only by PL but I believe that Photo Supreme (DAM) can read ratings and a few other basic things from the. ![]() ![]() I understand that the PL sidecar contains all of the edits that I’ve made in PL. dop sidecars when first installed suggests to me that DxO think that is the best option as do you. Your warning is a most serious consideration. I used to rename on import via LR but now am using a third party app called Name Mangler. Your point about renaming is most pertinent. I’m using a Mac but I don’t think that should make much difference. Thank you John for your most detailed reply. There’s too much reliance (for my liking) on PhotoLab knowing everything about the name & location of all my images in order to properly and reliably maintain the database … I prefer the simplicity of a matching pair of files then the name-change must be enacted to BOTH files ( effectively) simultaneously … and that’s probably not something you could achieve with File Explorer !.I want to be able to rename my image files (AND their matching sidecar/.dop files) using 3rd-party tools.using 3rd-party tools, or as part of a backup process. My preference is to have all correction history directly related to each image (stored in its matching sidecar/.dop file) - so that it is safely retained even if I were to move the file-pair to different storage locations without the “knowledge” of PhotoLab …eg.My preference is to rely ONLY on the sidecar/.dop files … even to the extent that I regularly delete the database file. … which, as I understand it, is essentially a central store for all the same info/data contained in the sidecar files. If you have these Edit\Preferences settings With PhotoLab, each sidecar.dop file is continually updated with all corrections made to its matching image-file - and with the status of the image from PL’s perspective (eg. Hi Ken - Following is just my view … Others may have different ways of working. dop files as part of my workflow and would like advice. I’m having difficulty deciding whether to adopt.
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