Address Lookup - after import

[Vtherdog]

I use Lightroom Classic - 13.5.1  on a macbookpro.

I imported apporximately 600 photos but the Address Lookup was not on during import.

Each of the 600 photos has  its GPS data.

Is there a way to select previously imported photos that have GPS data with blank address data, and have LRC run Address Lookup on them? 

Thanks!

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[johnrellis]

I observe the same misbehavior: If you import photos with GPS coordinates with Address Lookup disabled, LR usually never gets around to supplying italicized address suggestions for those photos after enabling Lookup.  (I've seen it infrequently displaying the suggestions.)

I think this is yet another bug with the catalog file <catalog>Helper.lrdata. It was introduced as a caching mechanism some years ago to speed up LR's performance, but it was bug-ridden at first and Adobe still hasn't removed all the bugs. Try deleting it, which works for me:

a) Do Catalog Settings > General > Show to open Finder / File Explorer on the current catalog folder.
b) Exit LR.
c) In that folder, delete the folder "<catalog> Helper.lrdata".
d) Restart LR, and it will rebuild the folder.

The Helper.lrdata folder caches information about metadata, keywords, folders, collections, and other things to speed the performance of LR and it can sometimes get corrupted. In recent versions, LR has used it more heavily to improve the speed of displaying metadata, and there have been a fair number of bugs with it.

[Vtherdog]

Thank you John. So I take you are saying there is no way to selct photoes that have already been imported and have LRC run an address lookup function on the selection.

I'm a little vervous deleting  "<catalog> Helper.lrdata" so will make sure I'm fully back up before doint so.

Thanks again.

[johnrellis]

Address selection has been run on those photos and the data is inside the catalog database, but a bug with the Helper caching doesn't display it.

It's perfectly safe to delete the file -- it's just a caching file and LR will rebuild it in a small number of seconds (somewhat longer if you have hundreds of folders and collections). I've done it many times, and many people in the forums have reported doing it too.

But absolutely save a backup copy if you don't trust Trash to recover the file.

[Vtherdog]

Thanks for holding my hand! haha!

[Vtherdog]

Thanks worked like a charm!