P: Metadata collisions between catalogue and files

Hi Eric,

Its not as straight forward as you'd probably like, but I do it "all" the time. Contact me using the old forum's PM or my website if problems or questions.

Hints:
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- You have to read metadata from disk, then invoke "Select To Compare".
- Then select the previous state (from edit history) and invoke the "Compare To" function.

(There is no facility for item-by-item merging of differences, but the differences are also logged so you can merge manually if necessary)

If you prefer the state as read from disk, just select it in the edit history. If you prefer the catalog state and there's a conflict to resolve, just re-save xmp (or re-lock photo if you are using that feature of ChangeManager).

Hi Eric,

Its not as straight forward as you'd probably like, but I do it "all" the time. Contact me using the old forum's PM or my website if problems or questions.

Hints:
-------
- You have to read metadata from disk, then invoke "Select To Compare".
- Then select the previous state (from edit history) and invoke the "Compare To" function.

(There is no facility for item-by-item merging of differences, but the differences are also logged so you can merge manually if necessary)

If you prefer the state as read from disk, just select it in the edit history. If you prefer the catalog state and there's a conflict to resolve, just re-save xmp (or re-lock photo if you are using that feature of ChangeManager).

Hi,
great I will have a look

Hi,
great I will have a look

Eric - I agree with your comments, but just so you know:

There *is* a way, *now*, to display and/or log a detailed list of differences between metadata on disk and metadata in catalog, via ChangeManager.

Eric - I agree with your comments, but just so you know:

There *is* a way, *now*, to display and/or log a detailed list of differences between metadata on disk and metadata in catalog, via ChangeManager.

VERY needed feature.
I all the time have this issue especially beacause:
-I cannot geotag within LR
-Not all metadata can be edited in lightroom
-Many problems with lightroom handling of time metadata -> which I set outside of lightroom

I suppose the problem is
- it takes time to scan all the photos to check if they are synchrone.

And then what we need is not just 2 arrows (or well only as a short cut)
what we need is to be able for each photos to display a table of the metadata values in the catalog and in the file so that we can compare both metadata state and decide which way we want to synchronise - and even best : decide for each piece of metadata of each photo the way we want to synchronise them )
So there would be 3 level
-decide for a selection of photo the way to synchronise metadata
-decide for a given photo the way to synchronise metadata while directly comparing these metadata
-decide for a given metadata of a given photo the way to synchronise it.

Regards
Eric

My theory: I think the Lightroom team members are very disciplined individuals. If it ain't top priority, it don't make the cut, no matter what it is or how long it would take to do it, or how long its been an issue. - Just a theory. What other earthly reason could there possibly be? - It couldn't possibly take much time to fix, and they couldn't possibly not know about it... Maybe in their own photography hobbies they never have the issue... - 'tiz a puzzlement...

My theory: I think the Lightroom team members are very disciplined individuals. If it ain't top priority, it don't make the cut, no matter what it is or how long it would take to do it, or how long its been an issue. - Just a theory. What other earthly reason could there possibly be? - It couldn't possibly take much time to fix, and they couldn't possibly not know about it... Maybe in their own photography hobbies they never have the issue... - 'tiz a puzzlement...

Thanks Rob. Ian, any clue as to why Adobe hasn't responded to requests to make this happen? It seems like it would be a very simple addition to the filter bar. In the meantime, we all have to learn SQL 🙂