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Potential bug in Write and/or Read Metadata operation. It seems that if I Save metadata to files and then read it back something gets lost related to keywords in the process. I’d like someone else to see if they can duplicate this before I put in a bug report. I’m running LrC 11.2 on Windows/10.
Steps
1) 4 images have KW “1971”. If I click on the right arrow on the keyword line in the keyword list, it sets a metadata filer for the KW and shows me the 4 images.
2) So I could find them again for a later step, I added them to the Quick collection. This step is not Germaine to the problem.
3) Save Metadata to files
4) With same 4 files still selected, and metadata filter still active, Read Metadata from files
5) As the “Read Metadata” process runs, each of the 4 images disappears from the grid, one by one, leaving the grid saying “No Photos Found”. However, the count in the metadata filter still says 4 as does the count on the keyword line
6) If I go to the Quick Collection to get to the images and turn off the metadata filter and select the same 4 images, the check mark appears on the keyword line indicating that these images still have the KW
7) If I turn off the metadata filter and turn it back on, nothing changes
8) If I turn off the metadata filter off (so images show again) and turn on a text filter for KW contains 1971, the images stay visible. So, the text filter can see that the images have this KW, but the Metadata filter cannot see that the images have the KW (doesn’t show them in the grid) even though the count in the metadata filter implies that it can see the KW on those images.
9) But, if I then turn the metadata filter back on, the images once again disappear
10) However, If I click the check mark on the keyword to disassociate the KW from the images then click it again to re-associate the images with the KW, all is right again and turning on the metadata filter shows the 4 images
Thanks -- Dan
Steps
1) 4 images have KW “1971”. If I click on the right arrow on the keyword line in the keyword list, it sets a metadata filer for the KW and shows me the 4 images.
2) So I could find them again for a later step, I added them to the Quick collection. This step is not Germaine to the problem.
3) Save Metadata to files
4) With same 4 files still selected, and metadata filter still active, Read Metadata from files
5) As the “Read Metadata” process runs, each of the 4 images disappears from the grid, one by one, leaving the grid saying “No Photos Found”. However, the count in the metadata filter still says 4 as does the count on the keyword line
6) If I go to the Quick Collection to get to the images and turn off the metadata filter and select the same 4 images, the check mark appears on the keyword line indicating that these images still have the KW
7) If I turn off the metadata filter and turn it back on, nothing changes
8) If I turn off the metadata filter off (so images show again) and turn on a text filter for KW contains 1971, the images stay visible. So, the text filter can see that the images have this KW, but the Metadata filter cannot see that the images have the KW (doesn’t show them in the grid) even though the count in the metadata filter implies that it can see the KW on those images.
9) But, if I then turn the metadata filter back on, the images once again disappear
10) However, If I click the check mark on the keyword to disassociate the KW from the images then click it again to re-associate the images with the KW, all is right again and turning on the metadata filter shows the 4 images
Thanks -- Dan
