Yeah! It's not obvious what LR decides is a "Change". Obviously things like star ratings, titles, captions, exportable keywords or anything you do in the develop module cause it to go to Modified, but other more subtle activities can also do it. I don't know what else causes it to "jump" as you say, but it could be something as mundane as just opening the image in the Develop module or syncing with a mobile device or even publishing in an entirely different publish service. I'm not saying that I know any of these 'changes' cause it to jump, but something does and it's not always clear what it was. You may want to check what other plugin's you have active as sometimes work they do in the background could trigger LR to mark the image as having been changed. One thing the gets me a lot is if I move a KW from one parent to another or fix a spelling error on a KW or any of its parents, or add/remove a synonym. I've also seen situations where the act of publishing an images caused it to be marked as changed and have it pop right back to modified. I think the issue here was the inability to turn off the cross transfer of comments. So you have an image and publish it which sends it to the service. Then LR asks the service for comments and the service replies with "none" or returns a new comment which in turn marks the image as modified when the comment is added to the metadata. Circular logic. It doesn't 100% solve the problem, but some 3rd party Publish Service plugin's, such as those from jfriedl, have a panel in Publish Service set up where you can check off the things you want to be considered a "Change" or un-check them so they won't be considered a change. For example in his Facebook Publish Service plug-in you can check or un-check any of: caption, copyright, creator info, GPS location, instructions, job identifier, exportable Keywords, label, provider, rating, source, title, image date. when I switched from LR's Facebook plug in to JFriedl's and unchecked all but caption, Keywords and Title it reduced the problem you describe by over 90%. Dan
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