Stephanie Booth
Active Member
- Joined
- Mar 21, 2018
- Messages
- 107
- Location
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version
- Lightroom Classic version: 7.5 [ 1186149 ]
- Operating System
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- iOS
I'm currently in the process of merging back into my Lightroom catalog a few years of photos that went into Apple Photos and were put in albums, sometimes edited, over there. I've described the first part of my process here: Moving From Apple Photos to Adobe Lightroom Classic CC
Right now I'm faced with the following situation that I'm having trouble solving: I have duplicate photos which do not have the same name, sometimes not the same capture time (don't ask me why!), and different sets of keywords, catalog belonging, and sometimes develop settings. But often it's really just the keywords.
I don't want to copy one set of metadata upon another, I'd like to "merge" the metadata into one of the photos, ideally to delete the second one.
OR I'd at least like to be able to "make" one photo the virtual copy of the other.
My apple photos are imported through a temporary catalog, but unfortunately as the names have changed Lightroom does not recognize the new photos I'm importing through this catalogue as duplicates of the ones already in the master catalog. I'm wondering if maybe there is a way to manage this bit better.
Suggestions or ideas welcome! Thanks in advance.
Right now I'm faced with the following situation that I'm having trouble solving: I have duplicate photos which do not have the same name, sometimes not the same capture time (don't ask me why!), and different sets of keywords, catalog belonging, and sometimes develop settings. But often it's really just the keywords.
I don't want to copy one set of metadata upon another, I'd like to "merge" the metadata into one of the photos, ideally to delete the second one.
OR I'd at least like to be able to "make" one photo the virtual copy of the other.
My apple photos are imported through a temporary catalog, but unfortunately as the names have changed Lightroom does not recognize the new photos I'm importing through this catalogue as duplicates of the ones already in the master catalog. I'm wondering if maybe there is a way to manage this bit better.
Suggestions or ideas welcome! Thanks in advance.