Metadata display not updated when moving to next photo in LR Classic 13.5

Question

Sometimes (randomly), in Library module, when moving from one photo to another one, metadata are not updated in the right column and stay related to a image displayed previouslsy (even when changing to another images folder).

In addition, when happening, closing Lightroom becomes impossible or taking a very long time.

Finally, closing and reopening the Metadata section in the right column leads to a blank section.

It happens in both Windows and MacOS.

Thanks for help.

johnrellis · Answer

As a first troubleshooting step, try deleting the Helper.lrdata folder:

a) Do Catalog Settings > General > Show to open Finder / File Explorer on the current catalog folder.
b) Exit LR.
c) In that folder, delete the folder "<catalog> Helper.lrdata".
d) Restart LR, and it will rebuild the folder.

The Helper.lrdata folder caches information about metadata, keywords, folders, collections, and other things to speed the performance of LR and it can sometimes get corrupted. In recent versions, LR has used it more heavily to improve the speed of displaying metadata, and there have been a fair number of bugs with it.

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