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Metadata won't update the photos' metadata

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
March 2, 2022
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When I type metadata (Title, Caption, etc.) in the panel on the right side, Lightroom CC is not updating the photo that I am editing. The problem started happening last week.

Here's what I have tried so far to no avail:

Restarted Lightroom CC 11.2.
Restarted my Mac.
Reinstalled Lightroom CC 11.2 on an M1 iMac OS Monterey 12.2.1. using Creative Cloud and restarted my Mac.
Deleted Lightroom CC preferences.
I ran First Aid on my Mac.

I tried opening a different catalog, and the problem does not exist. So, you'd think it's a catalog problem. However, when I switch back to the original catalog, the metadata problem is gone! BUT, later on, when I open Lightroom CC and the original catalog, the problem exists again!

To make things even worse, sometimes, when the metadata problem occurs, and I don't want to mess with it, I quit Lightroom CC, and it tries to backup my catalog, saying, "Backing up Up Catalog," but the progress bar goes back and forth. I watched it for 30 minutes one time and had to force quit Lightroom CC.

I did try importing all of my photos into a new catalog, but the images were supposed to be sorted by "Added Order," but they were all mixed up, not in the same order as my original catalog!

Any help would be appreciated. I'm at my wit's end!

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DdeGannes

Community Expert

Try resetting Lightroom Classic Prefrences, see the link below.

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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tcdriverAuthor

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I just tried resetting Lightroom Classic Preferences, and the problem still occurred. Thanks for the suggestion, though, Denis.

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Holmesian2

Participant

tcdriver, did you ever get it solved? I'm also having issues with Lr Classic not reading metadata changes...but only on some photos.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

Quote "Restarted Lightroom CC 11.2."

Adobe for several years have stopped using that name.

The current program is Lightroom Classic 11.2 or simply "LrC 11.2"

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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tcdriverAuthor

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Thank you, Rikk Flohr already corrected me on that. (See his post above.)

DdeGannes

Community Expert

Just a thought, there were some changes made in the LrC 11 upgrade which changed what Metadata was displayed in the Library Module.

See info at the link below.

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/whats-new-in-lightroom-classic-11-0/

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

Walt Thirion Photography

Known Participant

I think the OP is seeing the correct metadata fields displayed. The fields just don't contain the correct data after an edit.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

The Author stated "When I type metadata (Title, Caption, etc.) in the panel on the right side, Lightroom CC is not updating the photo that I am editing."

When I type a Title in the Metadata it is immediately displayed in the panel. What I do not understand is "not updating the photo that I am editing"?

Does he expect the image file will be updated for viewing in another application?

Is the option "automatically save metadata to XMP" selected ?

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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tcdriverAuthor

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After receiving Walt's reply, I tried this:

File:Export as a Catalog. It took a long while to export over 9,000 photos, but it finally did. The best news was that my photos were in their original position! The bad news is I'm having the same problem as before, so it must not be a Catalog problem; it's a Lightroom CC problem.

Here's my problem, as stated in my original post: When I type metadata in the panel on the right (Title, Caption, etc.) in the panel on the right side, Lightroom CC does not update the photo that I am editing. And, I discovered an additional problem: When I Control-Click a photo and choose Edit in . . ., all of the choices are grayed out.

I'd appreciate any other suggestions, and I hope to solve this problem over the weekend. Thank you!

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Community Manager

The next logical item to check since you've reset preferences and reinstalled is to test your Mac User Account.

Create a new Admin Account as a test and see if the problems exist in a new OS Account. If they disappear, then your problem is in the User Account.

I am editing your post title to remove CC - Adobe hasn't used CC for several years now.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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tcdriverAuthor

Participating Frequently

Sorry, I meant to say Lightroom Classic (vs. Lightroom).

I will try your idea. Thank you, Rikk!

Walt Thirion Photography

Known Participant

It's a long shot but did you by any chance select "Custom Order" at any time? That might explain why the images are mixed up. I've also seen strange behavior in one of my catalogs after I select "Custom Order"

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tcdriverAuthor

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Thank you, Walt. I'll try that next.

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