LR does not update metadata after edit outside of LR

[skewcrap]

Hi

I use geosetter to geotag my images. Usually I do that before importing the images into LR. But recently I had to make some changes to the pictures with Geosetter (which uses Exiftool) later on. Geo information was added to some pictures.

Problem: LR just ignores these changes, even though I synchronized the folder ("Scan for metadata updates" was checked). In particular, some pictures still do not show any location in LR, even though the location was added outside of LR.

How do I make LR to consider the changes made? I do not want to delete and reimport because I will loose keywording and edits.

Thanks for your help.

[Sean McCormack]

You need to use 'Read Metadata from files'.. select all the files you want to update, right click, Metadata>Read Metadata from files. No need to sync.

[Jao vdL]

If you do a read metadata from files make sure you did a Save metadata to files before you do the geotagger thing. Otherwise you might lose all your edits and keywording when you read metadata from the files as by default they will have basically no metadata in them!

[Jao vdL]

So. sequence is:

Save metadata to file

Apply geotagger

read metadata from file

Also, if you have gpx tracks, it is FAR easier to just do the gps tagging in Lightroom directly and ignore all this.

[skewcrap]

So conveniant

So, why is there a checkbox called "Scan for metadata updates" if it does not work? For what other purpose is that checkbox?

Also, if you have gpx tracks, it is FAR easier to just do the gps tagging in Lightroom directly and ignore all this.

No, not at all. I just geotagged 12'000 images with 95 GPX Tracks (one per day). I would love to do the tagging in Lightroom, but there are 2 issues:

- Writing the geo data directly into the files (JPG, RAW) is a must. First, if that is not the case, you don't have access to the data if you use other viewers (i.e. Windows Viewer). Second, I do not want to be fully dependant on Lightroom.

-You can not use multiple tracks at once, which is an absolute no-go if you have 95 tracks.