Saving Metadata to Files NOT Working?

Hey guys,

I have been using lightroom to organize my files with keywords on my windows computer and I just realized that I could embed the keywords into files by using the feature ''Save Metadata to Files''. So I tried using it by selecting photos that had keywords in lightroom. Then, I click the feature under metadata and it started going through the process. After the writing of xmp data was done, there still were no keywords in the files. I tried the same thing on my mac, and low and behold it worked!!! ...But why can't I get it to work with my windows computer? That is where all my files are stored and my main catalog is on that computer... Let me know the solution please... Thanks!

Saving Metadata to Files NOT Working?

How do you know the keywords are not there? What software did you use to check?

Are the files RAWs, DNGs, JPEGs? If RAWs, did Lightroom actually create the xmp sidecar files?

Saving Metadata to Files NOT Working?

They are all JPEG Files and I know they are not there because when you check the properties of the windows files and go through the tabs, one of the section has keywords in it. And the files I tried to save the metadata do not have these keywords. However, if I bring files that I saved metadata to in my macbook over to my windows desktop, the files do have the keywords embedded in them after looking through the properties. Strange...

Windows doesn't read the xmp metadata section in jpeg files correctly. You should use another viewer on windows to check the files. Mac OS does, which is why you can see them there.

You are correct... I brought the files to my macbook and I saw that the files were embedded with the keywords. So how can I look through my files on my windows computer using keywords without having lightroom open? Is there any similar spotlight feature like in my mac that I can use to find the files?

I don't use windows for photography, so I don't really know. I just know you

cannot see the metadata in the original files. You should be able to read it

when you export images from Lightroom, in which case LR uses a different

metadata standard that windows should know how to read. This is just an

issue for originals that you export metadata into, in which case Lightroom

uses xmp metadata. Bridge (comes with Adobe CS4) will work fine as a

browser/indexer for these files as of course Lightroom itself does and I am

sure there are others. That said, you might not want to be looking at your

originals in Explorer or anything else. They are meant to be untouched by

Lightroom or anything else for that matter. Perhaps Dorin knows some good

browsers/viewers that you can use on the windows side if you really need to

browse these folders and see the metadata. I've heard irfanview is

good but I wouldn't know.

LR stores conversion recipe metadata directly into the original JPGs and

uses sidecar files for RAWs. Not sure if keywords go into the original JPG

or just the exported one, though.

It depends on your Windows version.

Since Lightroom 2.0, metadata is stored in XMP and IPTC . Vista and Windows 7 show keywords and other metadata from IPTC but XP doesn't.

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