Sorry, intense online search didn't bring a useful answer, so: For image files with GPS data (like from a mobile phone), Lightroom Classic 13.01 on Win 10 shows IN ITALICS suggestions for sublocation, city, state, country. I want to turn these city-names, states and countries eternally into regular IPTC. And I want to BATCH-SAVE the town-names, provinces and countries for 100s of files in one go. Ideally also make IPTC keywords out of the suggestions. I only know how to turn one field (like Country) into permanent IPTC (also works for 2+ pics with IDENTICAL GPS data): Select one or more pics in Grid view Set Metadata panel to Location (maybe optional) For 2+ pics, make sure on top of the Metadata panel it says Selected Photos (not Target Photo), if you want to change more than 1 pic Click on field name "Country". From the context menu, select a suggested country name – LR's best guess will be at the top and can be selected (screenshot 1 below). That name will be added as regular IPTC – but the other suggestions for Sublocation, City and State are GONE, if you de-select and re-select the edited pic (screenshot 2 below). A) Starting out: B) Result (non-edited suggestions for other fields are gone): This is tedious if you have many different locations and fields from Sublocation through City and State to Country and ISO Country Code in many pics. So how can i turn all info into IPTC in one go? Actually I'd love all the place names ALSO added as IPTC keywords. Castles in the air? I looked at Jeffrey Friedl's "Geoencoding Support" Plugin description (LINK), but it confused me no end. So far didn't install it. Does it help to change all location suggestions from Sublocation to Country for many pics in one go? Or is there another software doing it smoothly (Geosettr?)? Thanks for all informed, usable suggestions! PS - Aware from my studies that LR place name suggestions don't work well for some photographers in some territories and that one shouldn't snap with mobile phones anyway. Yet I am still very interested in a batch-solution as described above.
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