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joopvde
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November 11, 2016
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Catalog imported from Elements 14 organizer doesn't include notes

  • November 11, 2016
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Two months ago I subscribed to Adobe Creative Cloud. The application looks impressive and versatile. First action: import my catalog with 20.000 photos from Element 14 organizer. I found that the locations were not imported (apart from a few recent ones I pinpointed on the map). Also the events were not imported. That's loosing a LOT of information! I converted both manually to ordinary tags, a few days work but OK.

However, I also have over 2500 photos with additional info in the attached note. They seem to be lost in the conversion as well. Any suggestions on how to include them in the Lightroom catalog? Some batch operation, work-arounds?? Thanks for helping out.

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Correct answer dj_paige

This is a known deficiency, that there is no translation of PSE Notes to any Lightroom field.

There are ways to transfer the notes to other fields, and those other fields will transfer into Lightroom. You would need to do this with something like the freeware ExifTool. You would have to write the metadata to the files from PSE, perform the transfer using ExifTool, and then read the metadata into Lightroom.

There was a discussion about this in this forum a long time ago (maybe 5 years ago), you can try to search for it.

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dj_paige
dj_paigeCorrect answer
Legend
November 11, 2016

This is a known deficiency, that there is no translation of PSE Notes to any Lightroom field.

There are ways to transfer the notes to other fields, and those other fields will transfer into Lightroom. You would need to do this with something like the freeware ExifTool. You would have to write the metadata to the files from PSE, perform the transfer using ExifTool, and then read the metadata into Lightroom.

There was a discussion about this in this forum a long time ago (maybe 5 years ago), you can try to search for it.

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joopvdeAuthor
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November 11, 2016

I had been thinking along the same lines, trying to write the note to the file in PSE. It writes tags to the file, but not the note, it seems.

Maybe my Irfanview doesn't show it? Thanks anyway for your quick response.

dj_paige
dj_paige
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November 11, 2016

I'm pretty sure that back when I was using Elements (PSE 5), the Notes were indeed written to the files, and I don't know if Irfanview showed them or not. I do know that ExifTool showed that the notes were present, you might want to try that.

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