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Offline steph2mm

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I'm culling from an external hard drive on my desktop and using a color rating in PhotoMechanic to make selects.

Using the same external drive, when I open the contact sheet on my laptop, the color ratings aren't showing.

OS Version 10.13.6 (Desktop and Laptop)
PM Verison 5.0 Build 19749

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Re: Tags Not Showing From One Computer to the Next on External Drive
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2019, 09:03:20 AM »
I'm culling from an external hard drive on my desktop and using a color rating in PhotoMechanic to make selects.

Using the same external drive, when I open the contact sheet on my laptop, the color ratings aren't showing.

OS Version 10.13.6 (Desktop and Laptop)
PM Verison 5.0 Build 19749

What kind of images are you working with?  What is the format of the external drive?

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Re: Tags Not Showing From One Computer to the Next on External Drive
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2019, 09:52:26 AM »
The images are CR2 files. The external drive format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

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Re: Tags Not Showing From One Computer to the Next on External Drive
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2019, 04:02:22 PM »
The images are CR2 files. The external drive format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Are you embedding metadata or using XMP sidecar files?  If you look at the files with the Finder, are the CR2 files being modified (if you're embedding metadata) or are XMP files being created and/or updated?

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Re: Tags Not Showing From One Computer to the Next on External Drive
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2019, 06:41:39 AM »
It's creating XMP sidecar files.

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Re: Tags Not Showing From One Computer to the Next on External Drive
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2019, 08:36:52 AM »
Using an external disk between multiple machines should just work (I do it all the time) so there must be something with your setup. Check PM’s metadata preferences of both machines and check they both have the same order for reading the metadata from IPTC/xmp/sidecar.
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