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Averil2
Averil2
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May 25, 2018
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Lightroom not reading Keywords from Photo Mechanic

  • May 25, 2018
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I work on a MacBook Pro laptop and have the latest update of Lightroom Classic. I also have the latest Photo Mechanic. I load my photos into PM and put keywords in the IPTC catalogue as well as copyright info and when I add the photos in Lightroom the keywords etc are not there. Is there something I have to set in Lightroom in order for LR to bring the keywords with the photos?

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john beardsworth
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john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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May 25, 2018

Averil2  wrote

Is there something I have to set in Lightroom in order for LR to bring the keywords with the photos?

Are you applying a Metadata Preset in LR's Import dialog? Review it, because it might be setting the keywords to blank.

Averil2
Averil2Author
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May 25, 2018

Hi John Beardsworth, yes I do have metadata in the Lightroom. Not keywords but copyright info. That would block the metadata coming from LR?

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john beardsworth
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john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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May 25, 2018

What I asked was "Are you applying a Metadata Preset in LR's Import dialog?" If this preset has keywords ticked, it would blank the keywords you'd added in PM.

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
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    May 25, 2018

    Lots of people use Photo Mechanic with LR. If you upload a sample keyworded photo to Dropbox or similar and post the sharing link here, we can take a look at what might be going wrong.

    Averil2
    Averil2Author
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    May 25, 2018

    Thanks John for replying. I have been using PM for a couple of years now and just noticed the keywords weren't being brought over. I don't know what loading a picture would show except a picture with no keywords.

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    johnrellis
    johnrellis
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    May 25, 2018

    I don't know what loading a picture would show except a picture with no keywords.

    It would show if you are successfully getting the keywords written to the file before importing it into LR.  (That is often the cause of failure to import keywords  -- they're not actually in the imported file at the time of import.)

    But it's more likely your import metadata preset setting Copyright is clearing the keywords.  Edit the preset, scroll down, and clear the check to the left of Keywords:

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