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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 8, 2023

@Phil23133171w3bj, I forgot one basic troubleshooting step. Try rolling back to LR 12.1 -- it may be that your catalog has some old cruft in it that previous versions tolerated but 12.3 does not.  I recall seeing an instance or two of that over the years. Rolling back isn't a long-term solution, but it could provide more clues about what's going wrong, and it might allow you to keep working while you go through the Adobe support process.


If Adobe can't or won't fix the catalog, then I suggest these next steps:

 

1. See if rolling back to LR 12.1 resolves the issue; if it does, do the following steps with 12.1, otherwise with 12.3.

 

2. Make backups of all your photos (or ensure your existing backup system is working).

 

3. In the catalog, choose All Photographs, uncheck the menu item File > Library Filters > Enable Filters, do Photo > Stacking > Expand All Stacks, select all the photos, and do Metadata > Save Metadata To File.  

 

4. Create a new catalog and import all your photos into it with the Add option.

 

Reimporting into a new catalog will save all your keyword assignments and changes to metadata displayed in the Metadata panel, but it won't preserve your collections.  You could assign a new keyword to all the photos of each collection to be able to recreate them manually in the new catalog, but that would lose any custom ordering in the collections.

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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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