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emmanuel.franco
emmanuel.franco
Participant
March 5, 2019
Question

Manual geotagging drag and drop on map doesn't work

  • March 5, 2019
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Hello there,

I'm on Lightroom Classic 8.2 and I have been trying to geotag my pictures by dragging them on the map as I've seen people do in many videos.

However, this is not working, after I dropped the picture nothing happens. No point created on the map and still no GPS coordinate in the metadata.

Mind you, I am very fresh with Lightroom so the mistake is probably on my side, I just don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Thank you in advance.

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andrefulopo@yahoo.com
Participant
June 23, 2024

does not work

 

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 23, 2024

Please do not post a “does not work” message to a thread that is five years old. Your problem may seem the same as the one discussed here, but the chance that it is really the same as a problem that occurred so many years ago is very slim. Find a recent thread, or create a new thread explaining in detail what your problem is. Do not forget to give information about your OS (Windows or MacOS? What version?) and give the Lightroom version number as well.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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WxGuesser52
Inspiring
June 19, 2019

Similar issue here. Same catalog, different computers. On desktop no issues. However on laptop the 'pin' after dragging and dropping the photos is up to several miles off (on the map). Right clicking on the map where I want the pin to go works.

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
June 19, 2019

Similar issue here. Same catalog, different computers. On desktop no issues. However on laptop the 'pin' after dragging and dropping the photos is up to several miles off (on the map). Right clicking on the map where I want the pin to go works.

This is a long-standing bug that Adobe has acknowledged but not fixed: Lightroom: Photo placed in wrong spot on map | Photoshop Family Customer Community . See that bug report for additional workarounds. Please add your constructive opinion to the bug report and click Me Too and Follow in the upper-right corner. That will make it a little more likely Adobe will prioritize a fix, and you'll be notified when the bug's status changes.

GoldingD
GoldingD
Legend
March 6, 2019

Have you tried resetting your preferences file, sometimes it gets corrupted and odd things happen

https://lightroomers.com/replacing-the-lightroom-preference-file/745/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bARt-hoCc2Q

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/preference-file-and-other-file-locations---lightroom-6.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/recover-catalog-images-resetting-lightroom.html

emmanuel.franco
emmanuel.francoAuthor
Participant
March 6, 2019

Thank you for all the links, I successfully reseted the preferences but that didn't fix it.

Here is some extra information if it helps;

Lightroom Classic version: 8.2 [ 1204643 ]

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: en-TH

Operating system: Mac OS 10

Version: 10.14.3 [18D109]

Application architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 8

Processor speed: 2.2 GHz

Built-in memory: 16,384.0 MB

Real memory available to Lightroom: 16,384.0 MB

Another thing, my library is located in my onedrive folders that automatically backs up to the cloud, I don't think that has anything to do with it but just in case.

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
March 6, 2019

Since you are already on 8.2, the bug fix in 8.1 obviously isn’t working for you. Best to post in the bug report linked above, in which Adobe engineers are already engaged. Be sure to include the first ten lines of Help >System Info. No sense in splitting the discussion between here and there.

GoldingD
GoldingD
Legend
March 6, 2019

Were you connected to the Internet when you tried the map module?

Work with the Map module in Lightroom Classic CC

emmanuel.franco
emmanuel.francoAuthor
Participant
March 6, 2019

Yes I was, I could search places from Google map.

I tried command click and others but no auccsuc.

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
March 5, 2019

There was a bug that affected some people dragging photos to the map, which was fixed in LR 8.2 for most people. But at least one person has reported that 8.2 didn't fix it for them: Lightroom Classic 8.2: Drag and drop GPS tagging not working. Right click on map also not working | Photoshop Family Cus…

I recommend that you do the menu command Help > System Info to double-verify that you're actually on 8.2 (the Creative Cloud update is notoriously unreliable).  If you aren't, then first get updated to 8.2.  If the problem still occurs in 8.2, continue the discussion in that bug-report topic linked above.  Be sure to include the first ten lines from Help > System Info.

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dj_paige
Legend
March 5, 2019

This is hard to say without seeing what you are doing.

Can you describe the exact steps, with lots and lots and lots of detail? Or can you have someone take a cell phone video of what you are doing and upload it here?

    emmanuel.franco
    emmanuel.francoAuthor
    Participant
    March 6, 2019

    Hello, thank  you for the help, the video is below.

    Hopefully it's self-explanatory.

    Untitled - YouTube

    I'll be checking the version again when I'm back home.

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