Andrew, I was under the impression (perhaps incorrectly) that LightRoom always updated metadata *automatically* after every change and wrote that to the DNG file.

Not Andrew, but it only does that if you set the automatic updating in your Prefs. Thanks, Bob. I have my LightRoom Catalog Prefs set to "Automatically write changes into XMP" in the Metadata tab. I assume that is the "automatic updating" you are referring to? If so, I had it checked already. My friend says that some of my DNG files come over to him with my custom camera profiles included and properly assigned, but others do not. I'd think they all come over correctly, since I have this pref selected and I always convert my Canon CR2 files to DNG, so no sidecar files are kept on my hard drive. I'm pretty sure he has this save auto-update pref checked, since we discussed this awhile back. In the meantime, I think I will try Andrew's suggestion of doing a 'CMD-S' or 'Photo > Update DNG Preview & Metadata' before sending my DNG files to others. I've sent my buddy a file after doing Cmd-S and will see if it comes over correctly. Iliah, thanks for the extra info on RPP, copy/paste, etc. I'll play around with RPP some more when I get the time. Iliah Borg ib@pochtar.com 3:24 PM (14 minutes ago) to me, colorsync-users Louis,

Iliah, I did download RPP and played around with it. I'll need to dig in a bit more before I can really make sense of it.

You can just open the raw file or the dng file and copy-paste from the bottom right pane into a text editor. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Louis Dina <lou@loudina.com> wrote:

Iliah, Robin, Andrew,

Thanks for the responses. They were all helpful.

Iliah, I did download RPP and played around with it. I'll need to dig in a bit more before I can really make sense of it. I downloaded the other program too, but my brain turns to fluff when working in Terminal mode.

Andrew, I was under the impression (perhaps incorrectly) that LightRoom always updated metadata *automatically* after every change and wrote that to the DNG file. On my system (at least when not sharing files with others) that's how it seems to work. I am hoping your suggestion will help, because I am fairly certain the other guy is NOT doing a "forced save" (Cmd-S) before sending me his DNG files. I'm not on my end either. So, we will give that a trial and see if it solves the problem.

I'll let everyone know what I find out. I'll bet Cmd-S does the trick!

Thanks again,

Lou