Author Topic: Force Lightroom to read XML files/metadata  (Read 727 times)

Offline blasttmann

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Force Lightroom to read XML files/metadata
« on: October 17, 2022, 04:36:07 PM »
I often work back and forth between Lightroom 11.5 and Photo Mechanic Plus 6.0. I am writing changes in LR to XML, and I understand how to check for metadata changes created by PMP in LR.

My issue: LR is slow to read the changes. LR seems to detect some changes, but not all of them.

Is there a way to force Lightroom to scan many images (in a collection or for the entire library) more quickly?

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Re: Force Lightroom to read XML files/metadata
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2022, 07:22:55 AM »
The item "Read Metadata from File" is how Lightroom Classic accomplishes a comprehensive metadata refresh.
  • Select all items you wish to refresh metadata for.
  • Select Metadata>Read Metadata from File