The Metadata for this photo has been changed by both LR and another application.

LrC issue

Using LrC and a Mac Book Pro.  I moved a year’s worth of pictures to an external SSD drive to make room on my MAC and spent the better part of yesterday editing my favorites to print.  I was able to export the images at low res for screen / social media purposes but when I went to export those same pics to high quality (300 dpi) images, I noticed the exclamation mark on many of them and received the message "The metadata for this photo has been changed by both Lightroom and another application.  Should Lightroom import settings from disk or overwrite those from the catalog?”  

I need to pick either "Overwrite Setting" or "Import Settings from Disk".  I tried to call Adobe Customer Support but when I finally get to the prompt to get to a person with LrC experience it tell sme a person will be with me and then it disconnects.  One other relevant point is that I also updated my Mac OS to Tahoe 26.2 yesterday.  Perhaps the Mac update created an issue or the fact that the pics were on an external SSD but at this point I am stuck not knowing what happened and which of those 2 options I should choose to keep the edits I made and preserve these favorite pictures.

Any assistance or advice would be greatly appreciated.