Hints and tips for moving off Lightroom

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Anyone got any experience and hints/tips for abandoning Lightroom? I got a good 2 year deal but that's coming to an end and I'm not planning on renewing, I'll probably use DarkTable.

I'm NOT looking for recommendations about alternative applications, I AM looking for actions to take to preserve tags etc. and anything that anyone with experience of doing this wishes they had done before the subscription ended.
 
sirch said:
Anyone got any experience and hints/tips for abandoning Lightroom? I got a good 2 year deal but that's coming to an end and I'm not planning on renewing, I'll probably use DarkTable.

I'm NOT looking for recommendations about alternative applications, I AM looking for actions to take to preserve tags etc. and anything that anyone with experience of doing this wishes they had done before the subscription ended.
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A key thing is to make sure you have exported the metadata, stored in the LR catalogue, into XMP sidecar files. LR doesn't do this by default (but you can make it a default, which you may well have done.

If you haven't there is a way (which I would need to look up) of manually writing a sidecar file for every file in your catalogue.

Darkroom will then read all your existing metadata currently stored in LR (not the processing settings of course).

The catalogue does, however, continue to work even after you cancel your sub, so this might not be as important as I think it is.
 
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