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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

Sent, TY


I'm afraid your catalog is very sick.

 

File > Optimize Catalog doesn't help (I saw that you had done that recently).

 

When I put just one Iphone 12 photo in the Quick Collection, the Camera and Date columns don't display its data:

 

 

When I do File > Export As Catalog with just that one photo selected, the exported catalog has the same problem.

 

I tried making a new empty catalog and doing File > Import From Another Catalog and selecting your catalog, but that fails with this error after importing about 8500 photos:

 

I tried skipping over some of the folders in the import, which sometimes worked, but it appears there are too many containing "poison" photos.

 

You could reimport all the photos into a new catalog, but to avoid losing all your keywords, you'd have to do Metadata > Save Metadata To File first. I recommend not doing that, because with an inconsistent catalog, who knows what might get written back to the files.  Also, you'd lose all your many dozens of collections.

 

Let's see if Adobe developers might be able to help. 

 

 

 

 

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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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