Losing Focus In Metadata

[Ian Farlow]

I believe this has been discussed before, but it may have been at the Adobe Forums. I couldn't find a discussion here, so here goes...

I have Lightroom set to auto-write metadata changes. When entering metadata, Lightroom often steals focus away from the text box I am editing. This results in my typing translated into keystrokes, causing havoc. While this happens when entering text into a single field, it is worse, and more frequent, when hitting tab to move to the next field. Say I am entering "Atlanta" for the city, and "Georgia" for the state. I enter "Atlanta" and hit tab, then I type "G" for Georgia and Lightroom kicks in saving metadata and steals focus. So, I end up with "G" in the state field and Lightroom interprets "E" as the keystroke "E" and acts accordingly... meaning that everything goes all wonky. :?

Very frustrating. I thought this was fixed with 1.3 or 1.3.1, and maybe it was when auto-write is off, but it seems to be present when auto-write is on. Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[Brad Snyder]

Haven't seen that one, and I keep autowrite on. I keep an eye out for it tho'.

 

[SP0]

I am trialling Lightroom 2.1 at the moment and this problem keeps happening to me too.

I've been going through a few thousand photos adding captions and keywords (with the setting to save these back to XMP on). Very frequently while I'm part-way through typing a word into the caption box, Lightroom will lose focus on that field and the rest of the word will end up being interpreted as who-know-what, causing the screen to dim, windows to resize, etc etc.

Worse, these unpredictable actions can happen to all my images in a folder at the same time, as often they are all selected when I am entering the caption.

Aargh!!!

 

[Victoria Bampton]

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[ipollen]

Yes I see this all the time with auto xmp write enabled.

 

[SP0]

I have Lightroom set to auto-write metadata changes. When entering metadata, Lightroom often steals focus away from the text box I am editing. This results in my typing translated into keystrokes, causing havoc.

So here we are, nine months later, and the problem still happens.

I've just spent 1' minutes trying to get my windows back to where they were, after a few characters I was typing into the Description box were misinterpreted in the way described. For example, "T" removed the "toolbar" - I never even knew that was what it called - so I couldn't get back to grid view again; "H" put me into Develop mode; "E" did I don't know what. AAAAARGH. If I type quickly I can make a dozen erroneous bizarre changes to the UI or to images.

I submitted it as a bug last year - presumably others did too. Shall we submit it again?

For those of us who have metadata-to-xmp on, it's got to be one of the most maddening Lightroom bugs (second only to when it turns an image upside down and writes "out of memory" in mirror writing )

 

[Kiwigeoff]

So here we are, nine months later, and the problem still happens.

I've just spent 1' minutes trying to get my windows back to where they were, after a few characters I was typing into the Description box were misinterpreted in the way described. For example, "T" removed the "toolbar" - I never even knew that was what it called - so I couldn't get back to grid view again; "H" put me into Develop mode; "E" did I don't know what. AAAAARGH. If I type quickly I can make a dozen erroneous bizarre changes to the UI or to images.

I submitted it as a bug last year - presumably others did too. Shall we submit it again?

For those of us who have metadata-to-xmp on, it's got to be one of the most maddening Lightroom bugs (second only to when it turns an image upside down and writes "out of memory" in mirror writing )

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1' months later no one is reporting what you are seeing so which version of LR are you using?

 

[jimc]

I am a new LR 2.3 User on Windows XP - and I also have LR steal the focus all the time when I am entering metadata. It is driving me crazy!

Does it help anyone to turn off the auto-write to XMP? (I would prefer to keep it on.)

Jim