Xmp files storage location

Hello

I load my fotos (Canon's CR2 raw format) of the flah card in a folder on my computer that is independent from Lightroom

subsequently import this file in my catalog of 'work' for the development (cut, contrast, brightness, etc.). Finally I export them in the respective folders regarding the content. I have all my folders to organize by my own in my drive D Partition system hard and don't make any use of the Windows libraries in the C Partition

I started this workflow with Lightroom 5 years and I've always found the files xmp created with the fotos original raw on the file from which I had imported.

Fotos, which I had deleted via Lightroom, were also successfully removed from this folder to import.

However, since a few weeks, but one some time after starting to work with LR 6, this does no more work. I found, that Lightroom creates a single additional folder to the title of "Libraries", which contains a copy of the photos, the respective xmp - with each import files and was not wanted photos are removed, while the original photos in the import folder remain intact.

A number of reasons, I would like to return to the previous work, but have so far not found of somehow do so via the change of settings.

I pray for a useful comment.

Concerning

Peter

I suggest that review you your workflow. You will need to place all images in this folder structure you like and leave there, transformed, altered, or not.

To move one folder to another and remove them one catalog and imported into another are the worst thing you can do. Everything that's confusing LR and you, as you have discovered.

There are features in LR for the Organization of your images and more as you want. Take a look at the smart Collections, standard collections and keywords to organize images. All this with the system of filtration in LR.

Strength of Lightroom is to have all the images in one catalog. So you need never to seek around in different catalogues to find an image. They are all there in a catalog. In my catalog, there are personal pictures, work-related images (I am a supervisor of construction, master carpenter and cabinetmaker) and images I did for people like paid photographer (although those that are rare). All of these images are in different folders, depending on whether they are for and on different disks connected to my computer. But they are all in a single catalog LR.

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