Photo descriptions not committing

[Gleeful_mind5C4F]

Since the release of 14.5, I've had an ongoing issue wherein I will add or edit a description on a photo and after a few seconds or when navigating to another photo and back to the original, the description will revert to the prior state (either blank if there were no description or the previous version of the description prior to any edit applied).

[dj_paige]

"Description" — is that the Metadata panel Caption field, or something else?

Just to make sure I understand what you are saying — Are you saying that you type something and then after a few seconds, without you doing anything else, the description changes seemingly by itself? Do you press ENTER after typing?

[Gleeful_mind5C4F]

Yes, yes and yes

[johnrellis]

Try deleting the Helper.lrdata folder:

a) Do Catalog Settings > General > Show to open Finder / File Explorer on the current catalog folder.
b) Exit LR.
c) In that folder, delete the folder "<catalog> Helper.lrdata".
d) Restart LR, and it will rebuild the folder.

The Helper.lrdata folder caches information about metadata, keywords, folders, collections, and other things to speed the performance of LR and it can sometimes get corrupted. In recent versions, LR has used it more heavily to improve the speed of displaying metadata, and there have been a fair number of bugs with it.

[Gleeful_mind5C4F]

Thanks, John. And, of course, once I posted this, I haven't seen this happen all day. But once it starts again, I'll try your suggestion.