Exporting the Cache then using on differnt system

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Feb 28, 2004
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I have recently reloaded my XP Pro box and before I did, I created a backup image of my drive so I can retieve stuff that I forgot to backup. I backed all my images up and exported the cache for each folder. The thumbnails look just as they did before, but when I open the raw image in the raw image view, my custom settings are gone for each of my images (about 10,000 so I’m a little worried). I went back an retrieved some of my old Camera Raw presets but that didn’t help restore my images settings I used to have.

Can I get my custom raw settings back to all my photos by moving some file back over? I could save my current OS into an image and reload my old system back and do what must be done in Photoshop to save these setting, I just don’t know how, I thought export the cache would do this.

Thanks for any suggestions.
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tburke
Feb 28, 2004
Oh, and I forgot to mention that when looking at the thumbnail, not only do I see in the thumbnail the raw changes I already made before, but the Metadata’s "Camera Raw" info shows what my custom setting. It just doesn’t translate back into the Raw viewer settings anymore. I can manually type the info back in to get exactly what I had, but that’s not going to work to well when I’m going to want to batch all these raw files out. I use to have a batch set up as "Selected Image" so that my batch would pick up all these changes. No "Camera Default" and "Selected Image" are the same setting.
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tburke
Feb 28, 2004
Ok, I solved my problem, good thing I had a backup of my OS before reinstalling. Turns out the manual had the answer, who would have thought. 😛 (Page 72 CS manual)

Turns out this Raw image file’s setting are default set in a database file under "Document and Settings/<user name>/Application Data/Adobe/CameraRaw". So I simply retrieve this file from my previous installation and dropped it in and everything is back to they way it was.

There is another option I found in the manual. Instead of saving into this database file, you can choose to save each raw file’s image settings in a side car file with an ".xmp" extension. This is created in the same folder as your file and is more transportable then the database file. You can only get to this setting by turning the Raw mode to "advance" and then go to that little arrow on the right and you should not see a preference selection where you can make this change.

So my question has changes a little…so now that I have this database file back…can I re-export all these settings into these side car files for archiving?

Also, since the cache without this database file seems to keep my settings in the meta data, isn’t that weird? I guess even without the raw file settings saved, it is kept in this metadata info. So why can’t photoshop just pick that info up and just forget about these side care files and raw file databases?
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tburke
Jun 1, 2004
Could this be a feature request to convert a current database to xmp side car files?

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