dominique.gascon
Member
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2020
- Messages
- 31
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- 10.11 release Camera Raw 13.1
- Operating System
- Windows 10
I combined many small catalogs into one by importing them into a new blank catalog (to respect the recommendation to use one instead of multiples catalogs).
Everything went smoothly, albeit slowly, and I have now one large catalog with 27K pictures. Two of the oldest catalogs caused an error while importing at the keyword stage, keyword fields were missing after import - everything else was fine. I solved this by exporting the metadata from the original catalog into .XMP files and re importing into the new catalog (the history shows now an entry "from metadata", but the photos are unaltered, and the keywords are visible).
Now that I have finished, I notice that all the photos (except recent ones that I have not yet edited and which have no ITPC data) have a flag "Metadata file needs to be updated" and no matter what I do, the flag remains. The flags do not appear in the original catalog.
1) Following the instructions of Lightroom when clicking on the flag does not fix the issue.
2) I imported the catalog into a new one, but the flags are still there in the new one.
3) Writing the metadata to .XMP (the option is not turned on) and re-importing, as it was suggested in another thread by our very own Queen, had rather disastrous results, (thank god on a copy of the catalog), all develop settings were reset (they could be corrected manually in the history, but not on 27000 of them).
before, posting this, I made a last attempt by turning on the "Save metadata to XML file" option and Lightroom dutifully created 20000 plus XML file without correcting the problem. Surprisingly, files which had a red label do not display the flag. I am am lost.
It is not a major issue, but definitively annoying. Any idea.
Thanks.
Everything went smoothly, albeit slowly, and I have now one large catalog with 27K pictures. Two of the oldest catalogs caused an error while importing at the keyword stage, keyword fields were missing after import - everything else was fine. I solved this by exporting the metadata from the original catalog into .XMP files and re importing into the new catalog (the history shows now an entry "from metadata", but the photos are unaltered, and the keywords are visible).
Now that I have finished, I notice that all the photos (except recent ones that I have not yet edited and which have no ITPC data) have a flag "Metadata file needs to be updated" and no matter what I do, the flag remains. The flags do not appear in the original catalog.
1) Following the instructions of Lightroom when clicking on the flag does not fix the issue.
2) I imported the catalog into a new one, but the flags are still there in the new one.
3) Writing the metadata to .XMP (the option is not turned on) and re-importing, as it was suggested in another thread by our very own Queen, had rather disastrous results, (thank god on a copy of the catalog), all develop settings were reset (they could be corrected manually in the history, but not on 27000 of them).
before, posting this, I made a last attempt by turning on the "Save metadata to XML file" option and Lightroom dutifully created 20000 plus XML file without correcting the problem. Surprisingly, files which had a red label do not display the flag. I am am lost.
It is not a major issue, but definitively annoying. Any idea.
Thanks.