Stephanie Booth
Active Member
- Joined
- Mar 21, 2018
- Messages
- 108
- Location
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version: 7.5 [ 1186149 ]
- Operating System
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- iOS
My catalog is sprouting metadata conflicts left, right, and centre. I've had messages when quitting Lightroom that LR was still writing metadata to files but that it would continue next time I opened (so I didn't wait to quit). I used photosweeper to eliminate duplicates, and then either synced folders to remove the deleted photos from the catalog, or looked for missing photos to remove.
So, something I've been doing is messing with metadata. As I'm having other issues which I suspect could be linked to this "out of sync" metadata, I'm trying to get to the bottom of which metadata is being changed so I can figure out what is creating these conflicts and a) resolve them without losing data and b) stop generating them.
I'm going batty looking at the photo metadata in LR, opening the photo in Finder, then Preview, and looking at the metadata in the Inspector, and trying to see if I can spot the difference or see patterns between different photos.
Two questions
So, something I've been doing is messing with metadata. As I'm having other issues which I suspect could be linked to this "out of sync" metadata, I'm trying to get to the bottom of which metadata is being changed so I can figure out what is creating these conflicts and a) resolve them without losing data and b) stop generating them.
I'm going batty looking at the photo metadata in LR, opening the photo in Finder, then Preview, and looking at the metadata in the Inspector, and trying to see if I can spot the difference or see patterns between different photos.
Two questions
- For those of you who use PhotoSweeper, have you noticed it generating metadata conflicts when you go back to LR?
- Is there a tool which would allow me to compare the LR metadata and the file metadata more easily so I can have a chance of seeing what is going wrong?