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LR 3.5RC: Reproducible spurious "Metadata file needs to be updated"
Many people have complained about spurious "Metadata file needs to be updated" icons appearing on thumbnails in Library mode. That has happened to me off and on for a year with LR 3. I now have a small 16-image catalog for which this happens repeatedly. No matter how many times I select all the thumbnails and do Metadata > Save Metadata To File, the needs-updating icons reappear very quickly, usually within seconds. The metadata is getting written to the files correctly -- it's just that LR doesn't think it has.
The test catalog was created with LR 3.5RC on Windows 7 by exporting from my main catalog (also exhibiting the problem).
Adobe, you can download the zipped folder containing the complete catalog and images from:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21811200/bugg... (111 MB)
Please let me know if you download it, so I can free up my Dropbox space.
The test catalog was created with LR 3.5RC on Windows 7 by exporting from my main catalog (also exhibiting the problem).
Adobe, you can download the zipped folder containing the complete catalog and images from:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21811200/bugg... (111 MB)
Please let me know if you download it, so I can free up my Dropbox space.
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PS: none of the images have captions.
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Catalog optimization changes metadata from "up to date" to "has been changed".
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Use Exiftool to set the metadata fields storing the caption:
exiftool.exe -xmp:description= -iptc:caption-abstract= -exif:imagedescription=a myfile.jpg
Wait until the metadata-conflict badge appears on the thumbnail. Click on it and click Overwrite when asked. Unfortunately, I must do this one image at a time -- if I try to select multiple such images and do Overwrite, the symptoms remain.
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To eliminate the spurious "has been changed", I did the following:
1. Select all photos with the "has been changed" metadata status.
2. Metadata > Save Metadata To File (wait until it's finished). Now the files have captions with just newline characters in them (ctrl-j).
3. Select all photos with the "has been changed" metadata status.
4. Metadata > Read Metadata From File.
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