Strange XMP Files

[Ade60]

Hi I have just been looking through some images on my external SSD's and noticed that the xmp files have writing on them in the form of a short verse.

The Default App to open the files is set to ON1 Photo Raw 2025 although I use Photoshop as my default editor for my Canon CR3 Files.

I am on Mac OS Sequoia 15.2 Mac mini M4 and all images are on external hd's.

I have included a couple of screen shots one is the XMP file and the other is the writing.

It would be nice if someone is able to shed some light on it for me please.













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[ppage]

That's really odd. After reading your post I opened an xmp file in a text editor but the file only contains very legible xml tagged data. I even opened it in a hex editor, and didn't find anything else there. So wherever that text is coming from, it's not from inside your xmp files. Too bad; that would have been the discovery of the decade.

 

[Ade60]

Yes very strange indeed.

 

[ishwanu]

What app created them?

 

[SecondTimeAround]

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/heres-to-the-crazy-ones

Maybe you found an Apple "Easter Egg"?

 

[Ade60]

I only use Photoshop for my editing. Camera RAW and opened into Photoshop. Sometimes finished off in Topaz AI or Topaz De Noise but always Photoshop to start with.

 

[Ade60]

lol How the hell has it ended up on my XMP files

and more to the point what do I do with them

 

[Ade60]

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/heres-to-the-crazy-ones

Maybe you found an Apple "Easter Egg"?

I will put a post on the Apple Communities and find out hopefully

 

[ppage]

I only use Photoshop for my editing. Camera RAW and opened into Photoshop. Sometimes finished off in Topaz AI or Topaz De Noise but always Photoshop to start with.

Totally off topic: Topaz DeNoise hasn't had any updates in a very long time and Topaz AI, which seems to get updated every couple of weeks, has a very good denoise function, so I'm curious to know why you still use the former if you have the latter. Have I missed something? I still have DeNoise on my machine but haven't used it in years.

 

[Ade60]

I only use Photoshop for my editing. Camera RAW and opened into Photoshop. Sometimes finished off in Topaz AI or Topaz De Noise but always Photoshop to start with.

Totally off topic: Topaz DeNoise hasn't had any updates in a very long time and Topaz AI, which seems to get updated every couple of weeks, has a very good denoise function, so I'm curious to know why you still use the former if you have the latter. Have I missed something? I still have DeNoise on my machine but haven't used it in years.

I haven't used Topaz Denoise for a good while and use Photo AI regularly. I do every now and then do a comparison between the two just to compare results.

 

[ishwanu]

What app created them?

I only use Photoshop for my editing. Camera RAW and opened into Photoshop. Sometimes finished off in Topaz AI or Topaz De Noise but always Photoshop to start with.

Well, to my knowledge neither Photo AI nor Denoise AI create xmp files, so I suppose it was one of the Adobe products.

 

[Ade60]

What app created them?

I only use Photoshop for my editing. Camera RAW and opened into Photoshop. Sometimes finished off in Topaz AI or Topaz De Noise but always Photoshop to start with.

Well, to my knowledge neither Photo AI nor Denoise AI create xmp files, so I suppose it was one of the Adobe products.

Yes that is what i thought and it certainly is something to do with the Apple Here’s to the crazy ones poem but how it has come about i really don’t know.

And as ppage says if you click on info and open in txt edit all of the Xmas data is there but when you look at the xmp normally you see the poem.

 

[ishwanu]

What app created them?

I only use Photoshop for my editing. Camera RAW and opened into Photoshop. Sometimes finished off in Topaz AI or Topaz De Noise but always Photoshop to start with.

Well, to my knowledge neither Photo AI nor Denoise AI create xmp files, so I suppose it was one of the Adobe products.

Yes that is what i thought and it certainly is something to do with the Apple Here’s to the crazy ones poem but how it has come about i really don’t know.

And as ppage says if you click on info and open in txt edit all of the Xmas data is there but when you look at the xmp normally you see the poem.

I'm not an Apple user, but maybe the OS inserts things on its own when the Adobe product creates the file.

 

[Ade60]

What app created them?

I only use Photoshop for my editing. Camera RAW and opened into Photoshop. Sometimes finished off in Topaz AI or Topaz De Noise but always Photoshop to start with.

Well, to my knowledge neither Photo AI nor Denoise AI create xmp files, so I suppose it was one of the Adobe products.

Yes that is what i thought and it certainly is something to do with the Apple Here’s to the crazy ones poem but how it has come about i really don’t know.

And as ppage says if you click on info and open in txt edit all of the Xmas data is there but when you look at the xmp normally you see the poem.

I'm not an Apple user, but maybe the OS inserts things on its own when the Adobe product creates the file.

I am totally baffled at the moment and have put a post on a couple of Apple related sites so il see what comes of it. There doesn't seem to be any harm done to the files but it's just strange but hey that's Apple for you I suppose.

 

[ppage]

I only use Photoshop for my editing. Camera RAW and opened into Photoshop. Sometimes finished off in Topaz AI or Topaz De Noise but always Photoshop to start with.

Totally off topic: Topaz DeNoise hasn't had any updates in a very long time and Topaz AI, which seems to get updated every couple of weeks, has a very good denoise function, so I'm curious to know why you still use the former if you have the latter. Have I missed something? I still have DeNoise on my machine but haven't used it in years.

I haven't used Topaz Denoise for a good while and use Photo AI regularly. I do every now and then do a comparison between the two just to compare results.

I'll assume that if you haven't used it in a long time even after comparing results from time tot time, that you concluded that Topaz AI does a better job. That's pretty well what I'd concluded. I think I'll remove DeNoise from my system.

Cheers,
Peter

 

[Pov2]

I read the text and thought that it sounded like Steve Jobs and Apple-esque in general. I googled one of the sentences and, indeed, supposedly it's a poem by Steve Jobs:
https://ocifoundation.org/poem-6-to-the-crazy-ones-by-steve-jobs/
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/924-here-s-to-the-crazy-ones-the-misfits-the-rebels-the

So, it's an Apple thing, unrelated to other software.

 

[ishwanu]

I read the text and thought that it sounded like Steve Jobs and Apple-esque in general. I googled one of the sentences and, indeed, supposedly it's a poem by Steve Jobs:
https://ocifoundation.org/poem-6-to-the-crazy-ones-by-steve-jobs/
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/924-here-s-to-the-crazy-ones-the-misfits-the-rebels-the

The other link posted hours ago says 'Often misattributed to Steve Jobs, the poem was a part of Apple's iconic Think Different ad campaign developed in the late 90s.'

 

[Pov2]

I read the text and thought that it sounded like Steve Jobs and Apple-esque in general. I googled one of the sentences and, indeed, supposedly it's a poem by Steve Jobs:
https://ocifoundation.org/poem-6-to-the-crazy-ones-by-steve-jobs/
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/924-here-s-to-the-crazy-ones-the-misfits-the-rebels-the

The other link posted hours ago says 'Often misattributed to Steve Jobs, the poem was a part of Apple's iconic Think Different ad campaign developed in the late 90s.'

Thanks. I should have clicked the link before posting.

 

[Ade60]

I read the text and thought that it sounded like Steve Jobs and Apple-esque in general. I googled one of the sentences and, indeed, supposedly it's a poem by Steve Jobs:
https://ocifoundation.org/poem-6-to-the-crazy-ones-by-steve-jobs/
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/924-here-s-to-the-crazy-ones-the-misfits-the-rebels-the

The other link posted hours ago says 'Often misattributed to Steve Jobs, the poem was a part of Apple's iconic Think Different ad campaign developed in the late 90s.'

Looks like i have an early Easter present from Apple (or a very old one as the case may be)