gPhotoShow Products Support Forum

Hello:

In order to filter my raw (cr2) files I am searching on their rating, wanting to display only my 5 star raw files. I've run into a problem in that the rating program creates *.xmp sidecar files and it appears gphotoshow isn't searching these for the rating, only looking at the cr2 file. Is there some mechanism to enable sidecar file support? This is supposedly an industry 'standard' supported by adobe.

Hello,
gPhotoShow reads raw files using Windows Imaging Component (WIC), it's a generic framework that allows makers to create codecs for their raw file formats and make them available to any windows program, the problem is that most of them provide only basic support to read images and few metadata from raw files. So it is possible Canon codec simply ignores sidecar file. I tested NEF and DNG codecs, only DNG codec developed by Adobe provides full support for metadata.