Metadata are not saved in jpg files, even if the option is checked in Catalogue settings. Version 15.2. Content credentials are not active

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March 17, 2026
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I noticed that the metadata (Develop settings) are not included in the jpg files, from a Lumix TZ-101 camera. In this way, develop settings are lost if the file is, e.g., moved to another directory and then synchronized back to the LR Classic catalogue. The file is not protected. If I force saving (CTRL+S) the process is sometimes veeeery slow. Also the scanning for metadata update is veeeeeeeeery slow. The disk where files are store is a NVMe, should be fast, and it is actually very fast for all other operations.

OS is Windows 11, up to date.

I enclose a screenshot to show the upgrade bar for the save metadata (stuck there for 1 minute or more, for a single file!).
May it depend from the amount of adjustments?

dj_paige

Legend

Please check out this thread. Scroll down to where one of the participants talks about Pausing the Save XMP option.

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crazyphcat작성자

Participating Frequently

It was! Paused, I mean.

Thank you for the suggestion.!! And sorry i did not carefully check the thread, I only read the post here below.
Do you deem it may be also related with the slowing down??

dj_paige

Legend

Your screen captures show for one photo that the metadata hasn’t been saved. Does this happen on all photos? Are there other processes going on in the background on your computer that might use the disk heavily?

develop settings are lost if the file is, e.g., moved to another directory and then synchronized back to the LR Classic catalogue

This is wrong. First, you’d be better off not moving photos after you edit them, and in most cases I consider this a poor practice; but if you must, use your operating system to do the move, and then you reconnect in LrC, you don’t synchronize, and by reconnecting none of the metadata or edits is lost.

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crazyphcat작성자

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Hello

First of all, thank you for sharing the link about the reconnecting to LrC, I’ll read it carefully.
And sorry for the unclear headline, I lost metadata AND develop settings.

To explain: I moved the files because I realized that i did not follow my usual procedure for the file storage, and I preferred to amend the mistake. Maybe it is poor practice (and, for sure, a waste of time) but I know by experience that it is better to follow a method, whichever it is :-)
I did it before (move by the operating system, then synchro), and I know that when the develop settings are saved “inside” the JPG, you can read them again, even if the file is physically in a different directory.

Yesterday i realized that it was not so: I had processed the files to BW, and suddenly (after the move) they were in colour again! Also, I lost the Location metadata, but this is not so bad, easy to add them again.
Today i did several trials, processing one file and moving it without “forcing” (CTRL+S) the saving, or doing it, and could observe that when I not CTRL+S the settings are not saved. When i do it, they are, but the time to save is variable, and can be very long.

Not always long the same, which is quite puzzling me.

Besides, when I synchro the metadata of whole folders, which is an operation that is allowed, it takes several (10 to 20) minutes, and this delay the operations which are following (like, maybe, saving the develop settings?).
See the images below:

same FILE, AFTER PROCESSING, no manual save, copied to a subfolder and synchronized back to LR: it shows no processing;

the first file, AFTER CTRL+S, COPIED to the subfolder and synchro back into LrC: it is processed. N.B: to save the metadata of this single file, it took MORE THAN TWO MINUTES

To me it looks more like a bug, but maybe it is my mistake in doing something?
Until solved, I’ll avoid to move files without CTRL+S, and will prepare to be very patient

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crazyphcat작성자

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@dj_paige

...mmmm… I have no antivirus (i can hear your “WHAT!!!” 😉) beside that from Windows - and a firewall from the router, no idea how it works… and if I can exclude some folders.
At any rate, LrC is now checking / saving all the metadata, almost finished. Will see if afterwards everything will work as usual, and will update the post. Because this slow saving time / saving metadata happened quite recently.

As far as i can remember, I consciously stopped the syncing of the metadata a few weeks ago, and then forgot to ripristinate the normal behaviour 😫.

Thank you for your support!

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Metadata are not saved to files by default. You have to select this in the preferences if you want this to happen automatically. You do not say if you did that.

-- Johan W. Elzenga