Edited images between computers

[Lauren]

I edit on ACR and Photoshop. I edited some holiday photos while away on my a portable hard rive connected to my MacBook in acr then i copied the files when we got home to my external hard drive attached to my iMac.  All files show as unedited on my iMac.  I still have them saved on the portable hard drive and they still show as edited on my MacBook however if i plug the same hard rive into my iMac they show unedited again.  Any suggestions as to why?

[Damien Symonds]

It sounds like you only copied the raw files, not the xmp files as well?

[Lauren]

i am pretty sure i selected for the xmp files to be hidden? or does they mean they don't exist at all? 

 

[Damien Symonds]

Well, you'll have to unhide them to find out, I guess.

[Lauren]

so if i choose camera raw data base instead of sidecar it will only remember it on the initial image and no copies is that right?

[Damien Symonds]

Oh crap. Change that back immediately.

[Lauren]

ok. why?

[Damien Symonds]

What? What do you mean, why? Because of this thread, of course! This is a problem of your own making. You need to have xmp files so you can easily transfer your edits.

Changing that setting back to how it's supposed to be will prevent this problem in the future, but I'm afraid I don't know how to fix the existing problem, sorry. There must be a way to export the xmp files from the database, but I won't be able to test it until tomorrow.