After round-tripping from LR to Photoshop and back to LR, there is a warning icon in the top right of all the edited images in the LR folder. Sometime re-synchronizing the folder in LR makes the adds the edits in LR and the warning goes away - but 90% of the time that doesn't work.
Today l learned 2 workarounds:
1, in LR, select all the images > click the warning > choose import the edits - this does not always work
Workaround 2
2, in LR, select all the images > right click an image > click Metadata > click Read Metadata From File
We need a reliable, stable and better way to synchronize the edits. I suggest that within the warning there is an option to read metadata edits made outside LR and apply to all images in the folder - AND HAVE IT WORK RELIABLY.
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