Writing automatically save changes to XMP metadata

Hi, I'm under LR 3.4.1.

Under Lightroom > catalog settings > metadata, I ticked the box "Automatically write changes in XMP," for all the reasons described with such vociferousness here: http://thelightroomlab.com/2010/06/getting-started-right-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-3-criti cal-preference-menus / .

However, I sometimes fear. I think that what a nightmare it would be if the 100 s of the changes that I made last week have been lost. If I select all my images (about 8000 of them) and press command-S.

LR then produces a progress bar that says 'Save metadata', and for the next ten minutes, I hear my hard drive works, until the task is completed.

What happens during this time? LR is re-record everything is still registered? I would have thought that if all changes have been saved automatically, this progress bar would just - ZIP - and is made in two seconds, not 10 minutes.

Thank you. This is probably a stupid question.

Thus, as others have said, I would try it in a slightly different way:

All your changes are saved in the catalog file.  Each of them.  In order to "save your work", save your catalog.lrcat (catalog. LRCAT file).

The XMP files were mainly intended for _sharing_ some (most) of your changes in the file with other programs that do not interface with LR natviely.  The main advantage of using the xmp sidecar files is so if you use another program to edit your images and want the changes to go in both directions.  This is the main use of this file.

Control-S assume that you just want to write again.  If it doesn't bother checking to see whether or not she should.  He writes.  That's why it always takes time.

Yes, the bottom line: you probably don't have the xmp sidecar, do not need to use the control-s all the time.

See you soon!

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