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openskies2009
Inspiring
November 30, 2017
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Lightroom Mobile Keywords

  • November 30, 2017
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When I load up a synced collection with my Droid and add photo keywords, they don't appear on my desktop app. All other meta data does.

Are these available on the desktop or only mobile?

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Correct answer 99jon

Which desktop? Lr CC or Lr Classic?

Lr CC sync’s originals

Lr Classic sync’s smart previews

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99jon
99jon
Legend
November 30, 2017

Keywords should be available in the LR CC desktop app but not the Lr Classic app.

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openskies2009Author
Inspiring
November 30, 2017

Do I need to upgrade lightroom desktop?

Jim Wilde
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Jim WildeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 7, 2018

But why some keywords will sync and some not?
All of my images are tagged...


tifi  wrote

But why some keywords will sync and some not?
All of my images are tagged...

As @99jon said, if you have previously saved the metadata into XMP before the image was synced from LR Classic, there is a one-time one-way transfer of that embedded metadata to the cloud. So any keywords and/or location data that were saved to XMP in this way will subsequently appear in LRCC. But note that ongoing changes do not sync.

In addition to the above scenario, certain files which are created by Lightroom or Photoshop, e.g. DNGs created by using Photomerge, or Tiffs/PSDs created by the "Edit in Photoshop" process, have the inherited metadata embedded in XMP at the time of creation. So then syncing those from Classic will produce the same visibility of keywords etc. in LRCC.

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