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Carlos_Oliveras
Carlos_Oliveras
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August 22, 2018

P: Placing photos on Map module erratic and slow since update LR Classic CC 7.5 (Windows)

  • August 22, 2018
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I geotag photos on a daily basis, and today, after updating LR Classic CC to version 7.5, I was going to resume my geotagging tasks as usual, but then I started to experience weird issues when placing photos on the map.

Most of the time, the problem is that I drag the photo from the filmstrip to the map (in the Map module, of course), and nothing happens (no photo on the map, no gps coordinates in the metadata). If I drag and hold the photo over the map for a few seconds before releasing the mouse button, sometimes it does place the photo.

I would say it's even more difficult when I select several photos and try to place them on the same spot at once, but I can't say absolutely for sure.

Also, selecting the photo (or photos) and then Ctrl+clicking (Windows) on the map to place them stopped working altogether as soon as I updated to 7.5, no matter how long I kept the keys or mouse button pressed down, or how many times I tried (previously, I was using this shortcut dozens of times a day).

Since I do need to keep geotagging photos, and with v7.5 it was much more difficult, I've downgraded to 7.4 and now things are working ok again. Of course I can't absolutely say for sure that this is an universal issue but... this is what's happening on my system. Any idea what could be going on? Thanks.

My first 10 lines in Help>Sytem info:

Lightroom Classic version: 7.5 [ 1186149 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 10 - Business Edition
Version: 10.0.17134
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 4,0 GHz
Built-in memory: 16314,6 MB

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    Carlos_Oliveras
    Carlos_OliverasAuthor
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    August 23, 2018
    But you do have that offset problem, don't you? I'm not experiencing it (or at least I am not able to detect it visually).
    On the other hand, did you geotag 1000 photos with 7.5 already? Man that's fast, I think it was released yesterday. Good work.

    PS. FWIW, I'm using Windows 10. Might be an OS thing?
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    Anonymous
    August 23, 2018
    Nope I don't have any problems with the methods you are having problems with. I geotag 100% of my photos as well hence suggest other methods. I just completed geotagging over a 1000 photos travel shoot. However I see your problem was replicated by Adobe. Would be interested to know under what conditions does geotagging rendered ineffective and Adobe's recommendation.


    Carlos_Oliveras
    Carlos_OliverasAuthor
    Known Participant
    August 23, 2018
    Hey GOapher, thanks for taking the time to reproduce this issue.

    It is truly an inconvenience since, like I said, I geotag photos on a daily basis. Luckily, I don't need 7.5, so I can live with 7.4. 

    I hope this gets fixed sooner than later, though.

    Thanks again.
    Carlos_Oliveras
    Carlos_OliverasAuthor
    Known Participant
    August 23, 2018
    I'm sorry but I can't see how your "Geotagging 101" relates to the issue I described.
    Or were you describing an issue of your own, maybe?
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    Adobe Employee
    Goapher
    Adobe Employee
    August 23, 2018
    Hi Carlos, sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for bringing this to our notice.

    I am able to see the issue and investigating further to identify a pattern.
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    Anonymous
    August 23, 2018
    Select multiple photos from the flimstrip.  Left Click the selection. You must wait for the appearance of a cluster icon to appear before you drag the cursor to the map. When you drop the photo to the map the position is offset south-east.  Move the cursor to the position you want to tag and right click to populate the GPS coords to the selected photos.

    How long you need to wait for the appearance of the cluster icon to appear depends on your system performance and how many photos you selected. 
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