Exiftool Presets (Have I accidentally deleted them)?

[kiwilink]

In the General Discussion and Questions Mario responded with  "delete the XMP using a preset in Exiftool".  I don't see that Preset or anything that deletes the XMP data when I click on Exiftool inside of IMATCH (see attached "Screencapture of Exiftool). Do I have to do this outside of IMATCH? 

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Need help with metadata write-back failing for 181 files
Started by Robert Wheeler, February 13, 2024, 01:44:30 PM

The reason I'm asking is that I have 4 images that will not write back.  I turned on Debug and found the 4 files.  I ran Metadata Analyst on them and I get  Warnings: 'IPTCDigest is not current. XMP may be out of sync'.  I have attached a screen capture of my directory that holds these 4 files.  I have no idea how these .xmp files ended up there and it looks like the .NEF files were renamed " DSC_9415.NEF_original".  I'm assuming its Photoshop related but maybe not.  I'm tempted to just delete all of the xmp files and rename (remove the _original from the files but I thought I should ask first before I do it.  None of the other files in this directory are causing an issue.  I just thought I'd add this background information.  Seeing only four presets in Exiftool makes me think I may have somehow lost several presets that should be showing up so this is why I asked the question.

Thanks

Kiwilink


P.S.  Mario - if you are reading this don't spend more than a few minutes on this.  It is only affecting 4 images and I can open them up and create .jpeg files.  I'm just trying to understand what happened and if I somehow deleted presets from Exiftool within IMATCH.   I have heeded your warning and I don't let other apps mess with my images but these just appeared, and they have been in my database for years.