Thanks, Godfrey. The strange thing is that I haven’t used anything but LR to open my photos. Maybe the current LR considers old versions of itself to be “other than LR”?
Rick > On Jan 27, 2022, at 9:18 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > This often happens when you browse or look at photos that are part of your > original image file store with software other than LR that is also capable of > modifying the EXIF and/or IPTC data. The issue is that LR caches the image > metadata in its database and, when it wakes up to preview the file, it > detects a discrepancy between what it has in cache and what the state of the > file's metadata is. So it asks you which one to consider definitive. > > Since the differences are almost never visible differences able to be seen by > the eye, it's hard to imagine what sort of preview would make sense. The only > way to know what's changed is to see a listing of all metadata elements in a > file, both what is in the LR catalog cache and what is in the file on disk, > and compare them. > > I was curious about this at one time and rigged a test procedure to > understand the differences. I used EXIFTool to output the original, native > metadata of a selected file (straight out of the camera), brought it into LR > and then immediately exported an original copy some standard annotations that > I'd made in LR. I closed LR, and then opened the original file in the > PHotoshop file browser (can't remember the name it's been so long…) and > looked at the file. I then closed the PS browser and exported another listing > of the EXIF/IPTC metadata, re-opened the file in LR. LR put the little > question mark in place. > > I compared the original, LR modified, and PS-brower modified EXIF/IPTC data. > What changed was the manner in which various deep water bits of the image > specifications were represented in the different encodings of the file. In > other words, nothing at all that made any difference to me. > > Since then I usually tell LR to just use what it has in the catalog > (overwrite settings) UNLESS I specifically opened a group of files and > modified EXIF or IPTC data in an external application like EXIFTool. Then I > tell it to use what's in the file, because I obviously changed things > intentionally for a purpose... > > The message is a bit confusing, but I don't know how LR might preview such > changes in a useful manner. > > G > >> On Jan 24, 2022, at 5:11 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sometimes when I open a folder of photos in LR, a series of photos in the >> Library view has an icon with an exclamation point in the upper right corner. >> >> Clicking on that icon produces the message: >> >> "The metadata for this photo has been changed by both Lightroom and another >> application. Should Lightroom import settings from disk or overwrite disk >> settings with those from the catalog?” >> >> The highlighted selection is “Overwrite settings;” but how is one supposed >> to know which to select when there is no opportunity to preview the results? >> >> Rick > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
