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Phil23133171w3bj
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May 6, 2023
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Lightroom Library Filter - Not all metadata being shown

  • May 6, 2023
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Greetings, I'm using the "Library Filter" to filter my images by metadata (default columns enabled) and it's showing all the metadata associated with my library.

 

2 examples:

 

  • I have images in my library from 2017 & 2018 yet those years don't appear in the "Date" column
  • I have images taken with iPhones and a Nikon DSLR yet those cameras don't appear in the "Camera" column

 

I have "All Photographs" selected in the Catalog and I've restarted the program a couple times.

 

Any help would be appreciated!

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johnrellis
johnrellis
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May 6, 2023

If Richard's reply doesn't help, please post a full-resolution screenshot (not a phone pic) of the entire LR window, so we're seeing exactly what you're seeing.

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Phil23133171w3bjAuthor
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May 6, 2023

Hi both, thank you for commenting. Attached is a screen shot. Richard, I know what you're talking about and you'll see the screen shot shows I've not added any filters to the library.

 

Any thoughts are welcome! Thank you

johnrellis
johnrellis
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May 7, 2023

Hi johnrellis,

 

No luck! I reset preferences at launch and then while the app was running. It was a very fast restart, unsure if that's an indication of anything, but the Libary Filter still only shows the same Metadata. I can see files in the library, categorized by date and it's certainly suspicions that the iPhones are shown when thousands of pic are iPhone pics.

Thoughts on next steps? TY!


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Hmm, try removing the Date, Camera, and Lens columns by clicking the tiny menu in the upper-right corner of each column:

 

Then change the Label column to Camera.  Do you see all the cameras?  I've seen a bug a couple times in years past where I had to do this.

 

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richardplondonCommunity Expert
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May 6, 2023

Just in case it's unclear: once you've filtered down using one metadata column, what is shown in the other metadata columns reduces accordingly.

 

For example: say no imported photos were taken with a particular camera during 2017. That year will dynamically disappear from the Date column, while you are filtering down to that camera only. Conversely: once you were filtering to show the year 2017 only, that camera would dynamically disappear from the Camera Model column.

 

Metadata columns effectively present "whatever's selectively left" after other filtering has happened.

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