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P: Drag and drop GPS tagging not working. Right click on map also not working

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
March 5, 2019
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I cannot geotag photos in the 'Maps' module of Lightroom 8.2. Drag & Drop does nothing, and right click 'set selected photos GPS coordinates' does nothing. There is no error, no message, no metadata is updated at all.

On initial startup, if I am very quick, I can drag & drop a photo successfully. But ~15 seconds after startup it stops working.

My issue is identical to those posted here. https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-8-latest-update-win10-drag-and-drop...

v8.2 seemed to solve the problem for many, but it did not help me.

I have provided sample photos and logs to Adobe staff already and communicated with them, but as the original thread is now marked 'solved' I have created a new one.

I have address book enabled. I am on OS Windows 7 Ultimate.

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eoonline

Participant

Turning off the “Look up city, state and country of GPS coordinates to provide address suggestions” setting in “Catalog settings” prevents the problem in my case.

Seriously, how is this a thing? When we geotag something, the reverse geocoding (or failure to do so) should never stop the app from capturing the GPS data. How dumb is that?

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peter vrijlandt

Known Participant

I also cannot drop a picture on the the map to geotag. The cmd-click also does not work.

When I set the font size to max it all works.

MacOs 13.4.1 LRc 15.5

johnrellis

Legend

Your issue is different. If you're on Windows, see this bug report:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-mapping-errors-windows-10/5f5f46024b561a3d426e1b6c

The first reply in that thread contains two workarounds for this bug.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

Got the same problem with tagging. When I place a point manualy, Lightroom sets the point a few meters away. Got LR 10.11.

Any solution in sight?

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

Nops. Not working on 9.4

alanjr_uk

Inspiring

Sadly hasn't fixed it for me. I can use tracklogs OK but then if I try and manually place some photos onto the map with tracklog turned off it's still doing nothing 😞 Eventually after dragging about 6 times it places them (this is on 100MB broadband too, so not an internet connection issue)

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

Fair point! 🙂