• Welcome to the Lightroom Queen Forums! We're a friendly bunch, so please feel free to register and join in the conversation. If you're not familiar with forums, you'll find step by step instructions on how to post your first thread under Help at the bottom of the page. You're also welcome to download our free Lightroom Quick Start eBooks and explore our other FAQ resources.
  • Dark mode now has a single preference for the whole site! It's a simple toggle switch in the bottom right-hand corner of any page. As it uses a cookie to store your preference, you may need to dismiss the cookie banner before you can see it. Any problems, please let us know!

Exclamation Marks

Status
Not open for further replies.
Joined
Sep 16, 2012
Messages
78
Location
North -West UK
Lightroom Experience
Intermediate
Lightroom Version
6.x
Lightroom Version Number
LR6
Operating System
  1. Windows 10
A number of images within the catalog are showing exclamation marks in the top right hand corner. When I click on one, the following box appears;
'The metadata for this photo has been changed by both Lightroom and other application. Should Lightroom import settings from disk or overwrite disk settings with those from the catalog?
The only other application I use is Photoshop. Can someone please explain what is being offered in the message quoted above.
 
A number of images within the catalog are showing exclamation marks in the top right hand corner. When I click on one, the following box appears;
'The metadata for this photo has been changed by both Lightroom and other application. Should Lightroom import settings from disk or overwrite disk settings with those from the catalog?
The only other application I use is Photoshop. Can someone please explain what is being offered in the message quoted above.

Other apps like your System backup can make changes to the header of these image files(modified data tag). Also, if you make changes to the metadata in Lightroom, then since Lightroom is non destructive, the metadata in the catalog will differ from what is in the image file.

The recommendation from here is to ignore this informational message. It is not an error message or even a warning, just a statement of fact.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top