rjb0765

Ive been saving pics in y computer for some time now and suddenly i've discovered several with an additional extention attatched after the jpeg or tiff. it is .xmp. I have traced this to a graphics driver program amd and also it is widely used by Adobe. The internet calls it Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform, used by photoshop and acrobat. I have acrobat but used the new corel software for all photo manipulations. How did these extentions get in my pictures files? I have no program that will open them. If I just remove the .xmp and leave the jpeg the computer tells me now there is two of those files and i still cannot open either. I have tried all the usual windows pic viewers, as well as the corel, also the Nikon NX 2. Nothing. Incidentally the Icon in the pic file also is different. Any thoughts why and what to do?

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Welcome. There are a few of us from Montana here.
Can't help you with your .xmp file, sounds like an unexecutable info file of some sort. (Similar to a .dll file or something.)

dfalk Loc: Chugiak, Alaska

The .xmp file is the data for your photo...things like camera type, date, exposure, etc.

Frank T Loc: New York, NY

First, don't delete the xmp file and if you copy the photo you're going to need to take its companion xmp file with it as it's the instructions for the photo. Better yet, convert the photos to DNG files and the new file will have the image and the instructions in one file. Honestly, though, I've never seen an xmp file attached to a jpeg, they're usually attached to RAW files. Anyone else see this?

T Loc: New York State

Don't worry about it. It won't bite.
The file is a record of how the original RAW or NEF file has been modified (by you or helpful software). If you load the original the .xmp automatically makes those changes to it. It can't be opened by itself because there is no photo there. If the .xmp is deleted you lose setting changes that were made to the original, but you don't lose the original.
View NX2 has an extensive capability for "correcting" or altering the original RAW file. If you make alternations in View NX2 you create an .xmp for that photo. You can open the original RAW later on and go back to the original settings.
The .xmp is automatically carried along when the photo is copied, moved, etc.
It gives you a lot of options for controlling your photo results...and still allows you to preserve the original settings and information.

T

rjb0765

ahhhhh I see. That explains why it was random, cuz I made some changes in the NX 2 program but mostly use Paint shop pro 4x and after shot. Thank you's all around.