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andyptak
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Oct 30, 2020 1:43 PM UTC
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P: Save Metadata To File doesn't change metadata status, Read Metadata From File doesn't always work

Ever since upgrading to the latest version I've had Metadata conflicts - little exclamation mark in Grid view. I even deleted my catalog of more than 200k images and started again to no avail.  I also synched all of my folders and no difference.

 

When I click on the exclamation mark I get the message that says that metadata has been changed by another program and Lightroom, even when I have only used Lightroom. When I click to upate the metadata the exclamtion dissapears but comes back very quickly. I made a Quick Collection of all metadata conflict shots - over 6000 - and syched them. The number dropped by a third but then came back to the original total within minutes.

 

I have lost all of the displayed colored flags in Grid View but can still select various colors in the Metadata panel at the top and get the appropriate shots. When clicking on an individial cell in Grid View I get a thin colored line around the shot which then dissapears when I click on another shot. I get the correct color but no flag.

 

I have auto save xmp on. I'm also at my wits end. anyone have any ideas? Thanks

 

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Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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Dec 10, 2020 12:44 PM UTC

Are you on 10.1 now @friedemann_schmidt , or still on 10.0?

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Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Schmidtze
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Dec 10, 2020 11:15 AM UTC

NO! Please excuse me, the problem still exists... As mentioned on the local harddrive, without a mapped network drive....

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Schmidtze
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Dec 10, 2020 9:36 AM UTC

I have the same problem since LR 10.0, occuring on my local harddisk. But, I mapped the folder with my images to a network drive and used this always in LR. This makes it easier for me to switch between 2 different computers. I'm doing this for a long time now, without any problems, until LR 10. Since LR 10 I had the problem with wrong update status and tried now to not use the real folder instead of the mapped network drive. And it seems to work now...

Best regards

Friedemann

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Califdan2
Inspiring
Dec 10, 2020 12:16 AM UTC

Mine are on a WD external hard drive (not a NAS)

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Inspiring
Dec 9, 2020 10:13 PM UTC

I'm having the same problem! The progress bar appears, but the 'needs to be updated' icon reappears. This is with a <ctrl><s> or clicking on that icon.

This is a long shot, but I noticed this the same time as I ran across that lovely problem with the new camera raw and 3rd party LUTs when opening a LRC developed file in PS.

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Participating Frequently
Dec 9, 2020 9:15 PM UTC

That's not my issue. All my photo files are on internal hard drives inside my Windows box. I use a NAS for backup, but that's not what LR is looking at.

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ouiouiphoto
Known Participant
Dec 9, 2020 8:45 PM UTC

This problem can appear if the file are on a NAS. in fact there is small difference between the time recorded in LR and the time on the NAS because of read/write buffers. This was existing with Synology and there was a post explaining how to solve it but I don't remember were it was. You should check not h/m but seconds in the property of the file and compare to the second recorded in LR

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.Sheepdog trying to help Lightroom and Photoshop beginners
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Dec 9, 2020 6:25 PM UTC

Also happens with PSD files.

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Califdan2
Inspiring
Dec 9, 2020 6:23 PM UTC

I have this problem as well but not limited to files with XMP side cars.  also happens to files with embedded XMP data such as JPG's

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