Importing development settings from JPG

Hello everyone,
I have a JPG file that I've created in Lightroom from a RAW file.
My computer has crashed at some point, and I lost everything, but I managed to save the original RAW file.
Is it possible to recover the development settings from the JPG file, in order to re-edit the orignal RAW file (so I could make changes right from where I left off)?
Thanks for all of your help in advance,
Dan

Hey Dannyboy,
Dannyboy103 wrote:
I typed exactly what you wrote when you suggested I use the exiftool.
Right. I since amended that on Phil Harvey's recommendation, but to be frank, I don't understand it all perfectly, so bear with me.
Dannyboy103 wrote:
To your question, if I have the same settings tools - the Temp starts with 0 and can move between -100 to +100.
This is what's known as "incremental temperature" adjustment, not raw (kelvin), i.e. standard baked rgb file (e.g. tiff, jpeg).
Dannyboy103 wrote:
The other profile calibrations are the same.
I assume you mean sliders. What's on the camera calibration profile drop-down menu?
Dannyboy103 wrote:
I noticed that when working on a dng file, there is a slight change in the calibration profiles (no "white or "highlights" and there is a "fill light" option. Maybe other changes, but haven't really taken a real close look at it).
fill light is for photos utilizing process version 2010 (or 2003), i.e. legacy process versions. whites & highlights are for PV2012 photos (current process version).
Dannyboy103 wrote:
Why do you think that having the lens correction option available is a bad thing?
Using profile-based lens corrections is a bad thing if baked rgb file (e.g. tiff, jpeg) already has lens corrections applied, or is cropped... Such is the reason Adobe does not support profile-based lens corrections for rgb files, only raw files.
I'm guessing you weren't actually using profile-based lens corrections on your tiff, right? e.g.
As I said, it is possible to finesse metadata such that raw (profile-based) lens corrections can be applied to rgb files, but one needs to be careful, since it could make things worse instead of better (e.g. applying lens corrections when already applied, or applying them wrongly due to crop). I thought at first this is what was happening to you, but I think now I was wrong - what do you think?
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