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gabrielt23682353
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January 21, 2026
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LR CC 15.1 GPS-Daten Problem

  • January 21, 2026
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Ich habe in LR mit einem Tool von Jeffrey Friedl's Blog bestimmt Felder überschrieben und dadurch sind auch alle GPS-DATEN überschrieben worden. 

In der Original-Datei sind sie aber noch vorhanden. Meines Wissens war es (bisher? ) nicht möglich, nur bestimmte Felder wieder zu reimportieren. Ich müsste aber nur die GPS-DATEN wieder in LR importieren.

eine Lösung von obigem Blog ist sehr kompliziert und am Ende nicht gelungen. Was ich machen konnte, war bestimmte Originaldaten in eine CSV-Datei zu schreiben (SourceFile; FileName; GPSLatitude ; GPSLongitude)

Das zurückschreiben laut Daten funktioniert nicht, komme nicht drauf was.

 

gibt es inzwischen andere Lösungen?
danke

 

Correct answer johnrellis

thx again
didn't work, the field in LR "GPS" still remains blank
could it be a format problem of my gpsdata in CSV?
....;"46° 21' 13.30"" N";"11° 18' 4.16"" E"; ....


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@gabrielt23682353: "could it be a format problem of my gpsdata in CSV? ....;"46° 21' 13.30"" N";"11° 18' 4.16"" E"; ...."

 

Yes. I did some more testing, and LR/Transporter doesn't accept that format for GPS coordinates. It only accepts decimal notation:

 

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If you're using Exiftool to extract the coordinates, you can use the -n option to use decimal notation.  For example:

 

$ exiftool -n -csv -GPSLatitude -GPSLongitude 1-086.jpg
SourceFile,GPSLatitude,GPSLongitude
1-086.jpg,46.3537,11.3012

 

 

2 replies

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
January 22, 2026

You can use the free utility Exiftool to generate a CSV file containing the columns file name, GPS latitude, and GPS longitude for all teh affected photos.  (That may be what you've already done?)

 

Then use the LR/Transporter plugin to import that data into the catalog. 

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gabrielt23682353Author
Participant
January 22, 2026

Thank you very much.

Almost perfect. There is still one problem: LR 15.1 uses ‘GPS’ in the ‘LR/Transporter plugin’ tool, but there are only the two old fields GPSLatitude AND GPSLongitude. This means that I cannot specify the destination field ‘GPS’.

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
January 23, 2026

"... was write certain original data to a CSV file (SourceFile; FileName; GPSLatitude ; GPSLongitude). ... There is still one problem: LR 15.1 uses ‘GPS’ in the ‘LR/Transporter plugin’ tool, but there are only the two old fields GPSLatitude AND GPSLongitude. This means that I cannot specify the destination field ‘GPS’."

 

I may not be understanding what you're saying.  I thought your CSV file has the columns GPSLatitude and GPSLongitude.  When you import that file using LR/Transporter, tell it to transfer those columns to the catalog fields GPSLatitude and GPSLongitude. 

 

The "GPS" field you see in the Metadata panel is synthesized from those two fields.

dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
January 21, 2026

Do you have a catalog backup from before this overwriting happened? If so, you could obtain the original GPS from there. Another possibility to use the freeware tool called Exiftool to add the GPS from the photo files into the .xmp files, and then have Lightroom Classic read the .xmp files.

 

Minor issue: There is no software currently named Lightroom CC. Your software is properly called Lightroom Classic.

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