Advice for fitting DNG into my workflow...

I know that a similar question has certainly been asked by someone else prior to this, and believe me I have searched these forums to try to find the answer to my question, but didn't have much luck
I have been tossing and turning with the idea of converting all of my RAW images (.CR2 Canon RAW images) into the DNG format for some time now, but I never really had the guts to batch through tens of thousands of images before...but with the addition of Adobe Lightroom to my digital darkroom toolkit, I think that now might be the time.
One of the main reasons that I feel is a good enough one for me to convert all of my images to DNG is simply the fact that having an .xmp sidecar file to go along with each and every RAW image in my collection (hundreds of thousands), seems like it just leaves the door open for twice as many possibilities for something to go wrong...I mean, I have to simply sit back and just hope that they:
- always stay in the same folder as the original RAW file
- don't get inadvertently deleted by a client who thought they were some random .DS_Store or .thumbs file that the OS put there
- don't somehow get renamed and no longer match the name of the original
- or that they simply don't get corrupt somehow
Seems like a lot more to worry about to me...plus, having twice as many files on a drives, at least to some degree, has got to take its toll on the fragmentation of the drive, right?
Are there any other potential drawbacks to DNG? Are there any added capabilities that one has with proprietary RAW formats that they don't have with DNG (when used in any mainstream professional software applications out there - such as Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop, iView Media Pro, Photo Mechanic, etc.)?
I guess I am just tired of going out of my way to explain to clients all about the importance of the .xmp file, and that they should never delete it, relocate it, or rename it...I am posting this question right now in response to the fact that I just finished a 3 month assignment, and I have to hand over 45,000 RAW files to a client for their archives, and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they, nor the person that will replace them in their positions, 1, 5, or 10 years from now, will have the first clue what they heck those .xmp files are for...It just seems a whole lot easier to have one file for every one picture, doesn't it?
I know that the big concern that a lot of people have regarding the .DNG extension is that there is no guarantee that it will be around in 5, 10 or 20 years from now, or that it may very well never get adopted by the industry...but the fact is, its almost certainly a possibility (and likely a probability) that 5, 10, or 20 years from now the proprietary RAW image formats developed by some (if not most) of today's camera manufacturers are going to be lost themselves, right? I mean come on...the .TIF format chosen by Canon and used by the EOS-1Ds is bound to get the boot sooner than later...
So can it really be that the biggest negative about DNG involves its shelf-life (versus that of the proprietary formats)? Does anyone really believe that Adobe is simply going to drop support for the format in the years to come, or that they won't be around as a company 20 years from now? ...and, even if they did drop support for it, or if they fade into non-existence as a company in the distant future, the DNG format has a completely open and well documented source coding, so someone else could (and would) definitely come out with some new software tool to convert DNG to whatever the heck the future hypothetical RAW format would be 20 years from now, right?
I wanted to hear what people's thoughts were on the issue...Should I make the mass conversion? Am I creating any limitations for myself and for my images by doing so (specifically, such as any limitations when using DNG versus .CR2 with Lightroom or Photoshop)? Are there any other concerns I should have?
If there are any pro

> "Are there any other potential drawbacks to DNG?"
The main drawback is that some software products don't (yet) support DNG. The basic list of those that don't is "the large majority of products supplied by camera manufacturers, plus a few others, of which Bibble and Capture One are probably the only important ones". (Capture One is planned to support DNG in v4 later this year).
http://www.barrypearson.co.uk/articles/dng/not_yet.htm
There are probably still cases where the Adobe doesn't know enough about the metadata within the raw file that it can't copy it all across. It is said that this is NOT a problem with NEF and CR2 - but I've read about problems with ORF.
> "I know that the big concern that a lot of people have regarding the .DNG extension is that there is no guarantee that it will be around in 5, 10 or 20 years from now, or that it may very well never get adopted by the industry".
DNG is openly-documented and has a freely-available source-based SDK. It is also supported by non-Adobe freely-available source code such as dcraw. Given the number of DNGs there will be in the world in future, hence the motivation of many people to exploit those resources, there is no chance that they will become orphaned whatever happens to Adobe.
It has already been accepted by much of the industry - a number of cameras and digital backs use it in camera, and more than 160 products from more than 150 sources support it. Canon and Nikon stand out as the main exceptions, and may remain so for years, but they are not the whole industry. Probably most photographers with a DNG-based workflow use Canon or Nikon, and probably most DNGs in the world contain raw image data that started in Canon or Nikon cameras.
> "... any limitations when using DNG versus .CR2 with Lightroom or Photoshop".
In every case I've tried, (for raws from several camera makes & models), the following routes give pixel-identical results as long as the product versions are the same:
Original raw > ACR > Photoshop
Original raw > DNG Converter > DNG > ACR > Photoshop
I try to provide answers to this sort of question at the following, which attempts to identify disadvantages as well as advantages, so that people can make their own informed decisions:
http://www.barrypearson.co.uk/articles/dng/
> "I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they, nor the person that will replace them in their positions, 1, 5, or 10 years from now, will have the first clue what they heck those .xmp files are for...It just seems a whole lot easier to have one file for every one picture, doesn't it?"
This is part of the whole topic of "archiving". DNG is designed to be good for archiving - I believe it is the only raw file format that is. In fact, as far as I know, a DNG will contain a superset of the data that was in the original CR2 or NEF. (But it is hard to get precise statements on this).

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