P: There was an unknown error while writing metadat to this photo. Retry?

[finns73888201]

After I copied all my photo files in Lightroom to a new PC, all the photo files have been marked with an exclamation mark in the upper right corner. When I mouse over the exclamation mark, the message appears: "Error writing metadata". When I click on this mark, I get the following message: "There was an unknown error while writing metadata to this photo. Retry?" Below the message there are two options I can click: "Import settings from disk" and "Retry Metadata Export". I don't understand what Lightroom is trying to tell me, nor what the consequences are of clicking these two options.

[dj_paige]

Wait five minutes and try again. 

[finns73888201]

I have been waiting for two days.  🙂

[Kim Kruse]

Did you find a solution on this issue? I have recognised the same  problem...

[JohanElzenga]

Select all, click on the icon of the active image and then click on 'Retry Metadata Export'. That will remove the icons of all images.

[Kim Kruse]

Thanks for your reply! I am aware of this, however I then need to do it for all images and there will be created a .XMP file for each image. Of course I may have Win to delete these.... if possible in few steps---

[JohanElzenga]

Just select all the images first before you do this. Then you only have to do this for one image to fix all of them. It might indeed create XMP files, but these are harmless and do not have to be removed for any reason. Another option is to ignore the issue and wait to see if an update of Lightroom Classic will fix this.

[adrianusv11397004]

My question is : do you expect an update of Lightroom Classic to fix this?

Adriaan van den Bos

[JohanElzenga]

My guess is as good as yours.