P: Changes to Metadata Panel for targeting one or many images

Hi, Since upgrading from release 10.4 to 11.1, I see there is now a customizable option for Metadata fields. However in creating this new series of options one feature appears to no longer be available. I keyword images and often apply the Title, Caption and Sublocation to many, sometimes dozens of images at the same time. I do this simply by highlighting all the images I want with the same information, type in the text detail and that's it; all images selected are applied with the text changes. Following the upgrade ONLY the lead image is applied with the text detail updates but the rest are left blank/empty. I have to now sync them additionally to get the data across. As a footnote the Keywording section appears to have remained the same, so I suspect it was a bug added in on the design of the customizable options. Any thoughts or opportunity to change it back please? It would not affect anyone who only wants to update a single image but hugely affects those who apply text detail to hundreds of images at once. Many thanks, Oliver Smart

When I select a group of photos, and enter Location metadata (e.g., City, State, Country, etc) this used to set it for all selected photos. Now it only sets the first photo. Not sure when this problem started, but I just updated to LR 11.1, and it's still there. This is seriously inconvenient! Not sure if this problem also applies to other metadata, haven't tried it yet.

Hello! I am able to read metadata from file for one image but not the entire lirbrary when highlighted. We have several people working on different computers in the same studio and mine seems to be the only one that I have to do one at a time. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks!

In the past I have been able to select multiple files in Lightroom Classic using the Library module and using (G) to select many files at once. Then I could add a title and caption information and this information would be written to all of the selected files. Now it only writes to the first one selected much like what would happen if I was in the single file (F) mode. What is wrong?

Hello, since using LR 10 and now 11 I have this issue: I'm used to selecting several quite similar photos in the library view and then give them a similar titel and/or caption.

Now this doesn't work anymore here. What I type in "Title" or "Caption" is only ever added to the first of the selected images. This is annoying. Keywords I can add in the way I'm used to: they get actually added to all of the selected.

Is there a (new) trick or is it a bug?

Thanks for your help!

I have a bunch of photos without GPS data in Library module. I selected them all and move to Map module. I find the right location for the photos and drag-n-drop the photos on the map. All the photos get the same GPS, ISO country, country, state and city information. After this I add the sublocation info by-hand. After hitting enter with sublocation the city, state, country and ISO country information disappears. Only the sublocation and GPS info remains.

Also when I add this sublocation to bunch of photos only the first photo I selected gets this information.

So there are two bugs: Disappearing location info and inproperly working batch edit (or whatever you call this) when adding sublocation. I'm using the latest version of Lightroom Classic on Windows 10.

I have done exactly the same thing with previous version of Lightroom Classic (v10) without any problems.

In prior versions of Lightroom classic I was able to create a collection of photos, select them all, then add a title in the metadata panel and have that title apply to all selected images at once. I use the title field to re-name images on export, so I noticed this as soon as it stopped working. Now, I need to add the title to each image, one at a time. I believe this bug first appeared for me after upgrading to Lightroom Classic version 11.

• Lightroom Classic Version Number: 11.0.1
• OS Version Number: Microsoft Windows Version 10.0.19042 Build 19042
  

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to Map view
2. Select multiple photos at once
3. Set the GPS coordinates

Expected result: GPS coordinates get updated on all selected photos
Actual result: GPS coordinates are only updated on the first selected photo

This used to work in 10.x

I just started editing a huge job, and I cannot copy and paste a caption or title to an entire gallery. I have to copy each field individually. This is a simple function that has worked just fine until this week. Help!!

Something has changed in the newest version of LR classic.

In Grid view: Previously if you selected several photos and copied a GPS location into the GPS field in the metadata tab.  Two things would happen - you got a message asking if you wanted to change the metadata for multiple photos and if you relied yes, the GPS data was inserted into the selected photos and .  Now the only thing that happens is that only the most selected photo gets the GPS data copied (and no message).

Similarly, if multiple photos were selected with different GPS locations and you looked at the metadata tab it would show "mixed".  Now it shows the GPS location of the most selected photo.  And this later thing happens for all metadata information - ie when multiple photos are selected in grid view the metadata tab shows the metadata for the most selected photo where previously it showed the metadata for all the selected photos - where it varied across photos it would show "mixed" in the field.