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P: Edit/Sync Photo changes the Capture Time.

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December 13, 2024
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I use Lightroom for culling through wedding photos, and as of yesterday's update, any time I increase or decrease the rating of an image (or apply any other kind of edit) it will add 4 hours to the capture time, therefore sending that photo to a random place later in the collection, only for me to find it again as I'm moving through. In fact, it just happened twice, as I edited a photo that had already been changed, and it added 4 more. What in the world??? This could prove to be exceptionally annoying.

Photos are syncing.

LR version 14.1

MacOS 14.7.1

M1 Max

macOS

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derMueller

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The issue appears with newest versions of LRc and LR and only if images are imported via LR to LRc. I have also recognized this issue this week first time after latest update. One thing, changing date and time manually makes the thing even worse, the LR (or LRc) changes again to a different date (either day or hour; I have not recognized change minutes).

idrewthis

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I've just spent about an hour in LrC and a few files I've worked on in that time have progressively had their "Date Time Original" stamp moved earlier and earlier. One photo changed so many times, LrC was reporting it was taken more than a month before I actually took it.

I can confirm that it's only happening to synced files and that pausing sync stops it from happening.

Also, in Library module, choosing 'Metadata > Revert Capture Time to Original' has the desired effect of correcting the wrong "Date Time Original" stamp to correspond with the correct "Date Time" and "Date Time Digitized" stamps.

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Gregg Mack

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Yesterday I updated to Lightroom Classic v14.1, on my Window 11 desktop.

I have been working on reprocessing photos from a prior vacation, and I have been working in only one folder of photos, named 2019_07_14_Orkney_Islands_Scotland. Several of the photos in this folder are also included in 5 or 6 different Collections (Flower, Location Portraits, Family Members, Select from Orkney, etc.). I had the Sort Order set to Capture Time for this folder, but then I noticed that as I was working my way through this folder, the photos would magically re-arrange themselves to random positions within the Grid View of this Folder. Fortunately I had previously renamed the photos in chronological order so that changing the Sort Order to Filename could show them in the proper sequence.

After 3 or 4 hours of futzing around, I determined that it was the photos that were members of the Synchronized Folders that were automagically having the Capture Time, and sometimes the Capture Date change.

I deleted those 44 photos from all of the collections that they were members of, and also had then deleted them from All Synced Photos. I made sure that they were not visible to any longer on my iPhone, iPad, the Lightroom website. I turned off my iPhone and my iPad. I selected the effected 44 photos and from the Lightroom Classic Metadata menu, I chose the Revert to Original Capture Time, which seems to have worked correctly. I then added all of the photos to a non-synced Collection - and the Capture Time and Capture Date stayed set to the correct time/dates.

I then added one photo to the synced Flowers Collection and one photo to the Location Portraits synced Collection. It doesn't happen immediately, but within 30 seconds or so, the Capture Time will certainly change, and if the Capture Date changes it is for 2 to 3 days into the future.

Right now, I'm reluctant to continue reprocessing any photos that are included in any synchronized Collections.

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joesao

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LRC v. 14.1 on MacOS 15.1.1

This is such a strange bug, I made a short 18 second video to show it to you.

I have a series of photos of California Condors taken in burst mode. The middle one is synched to Adobe Cloud for online sharing.

For some odd reason, LRC shifted the capture time +10 hours on that photo.

"Great, who cares," you ask.

Well, I care because I'm sharing a bunch of photos, and the order of those photos matters.

I have them sorted by "Capture Time" and I'm noticing that the order keeps changing. And now I know why: LRC is changing the capture time for synched photos!

This is a very annoying little bug... here's the short video, look at the metadata on the top left:

https://youtu.be/BJYkEbx5CaU

Thanks.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

I checked some more photos, and found a few with two hour shift rather than four hours. That may mean that I am experiencing a two hour shift after all, and that the images with four hour shifts actually had two times this shift before I even noticed it.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Armand Jacobs Photo

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Deffinitely. I can also confirm that the problem is at the sync level : turning off the sync stops the problem from occuring.

Cameron BraunAuthor

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@Oliver Andrews Thanks for clarifying. @JohanElzenga helped with this earlier too. I misunderstood how that dialog box works.

That being said, it's quite clear many others are suffering the same bug that I originally posted, and it would appear something is wrong with Syncing.

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Oliver Andrews

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@Cameron Braun "Original Time" in the "Edit Capture Time" dialog is the current capture time set on the selected item (image, virtual copy, etc), if it's been changed from the actual original time then it shows the changed time. "Corrected Time" is what the dialog will change it to, so without an adjustment specified they both show the same.

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Rangali

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No, sorry, my bad ... it seems to affecting also RAW/NEF files

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Rangali

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As said I had completely deactivated my cloud sync ...
Then I manually corrected the date and time of all those pics that had been screwed before.
Then I started sync again (but just for a short time).
Saw that everything happened as before (time is getting set to prior times/dates).
What I realized though ...
Seems to having affected only pics that I had imported from my iPhone (no RAW/NEFs as far as I can see).
Seems also like those "critical pics" are all sesequently from a specific day (at least that's what I found thus far).
Does it say anything to the Devs?

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