Camera Information not Showing in Lens Correction

You’ve posted to a very old thread. It is highly unlikely that the issue described in this thread, though not impossible, is the same issue which you are currently experiencing. Rather than resurrect an old thread that is seemingly similar, you are better posting to a new thread with fresh, complete information including system information, a complete description of the problem and step-by-step instructions for reproduction. 

In the unlikely event the issue is the same, we will merge you back into the appropriate location. 

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"If I try to auto enable the lens corrections for my Nikon D800 and Nikon 50mm 1.4 lens, it doesn't work. And when I try to set it manually, it gives me the wrong lens I think. It gives me 1.4 D instead of a 1.4 G. They are Tiff files. I just don't know what to do, because I need the correct lens profile for these images."

Profiles are made for either correcting Raw or non-Raw. So you may not have any non-Raw profile present, for the 50mm / 1.4. In that case you won't be able to select that lens manually, nor set up any user lens profile default, when it's a TIFF image in question.

It is possible to "kludge" and re-save a copy of the Raw correcting profile that is present, suitably changed using a text editor. This needs to be saved into the user lens profiles folder. For proper results these will need to have been an un-cropped TIFFs that you have converted, since lens correction works on the basis of having the full original image area to work with.

Once the right profile is present, and manually selected, THEN this can be set as a default profile as has been explained by others. In order to get this new default recognised on other images of the same sort, it is sufficient to change their Profile option from "Auto", as shown in your screenshot, to "Default".

["Auto" simply means, use any built-in lens profile but if none is found, give up. "Default" means, use any default assignment the user may have set up, failing that use any built-in lens profile assignment, failing that give up.]

Hence "Default" is perfectly safe to apply to any / all images (replacing "Auto"). Those already getting the right results with Auto, won't see any change.

This is all much less laborious, and less error-prone, than applying the Manual selection of each specific lens profile, onto just the photos taken with that lens. You can make a Develop preset which simply activates profiled correction with the selection of "Default", and then this same preset can be applied to pictures of any sort (Raw or non-Raw) and taken with any lens. The right needful thing will then happen to each one. If you only subsequently set up a new user lens profile default, the affected images are already "primed" to respond to that immediately and automatically.

"I no longer have the raw files either, because they are older files that I uploaded and converted to tiff since my then current lightroom/camera raw did not support the files."

Keeping the Raws regardless, is always a good habit and instinct IMO.

The camera defaults for that camera may have gotten changed.  Select a photo, go to Develop, and do the menu command Develop > Set Default Settings > Restore Adobe Default Settings.

They are Raw photos. Lens Corrections are selected, the information for the camera/lens is blank. It appears for older photos taken with the same camera/lens.

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Where do I reset the preferences???

The camera is a Canon 80D and I am running on Mac OS 10.13.2. It used to work, I can see it for older pictures.

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