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Load Metadata for 1000s of images

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I'm using Photo Mechanic to rate and color RAW files. There are seemingly random metadata load issues when opening C1 to view the photos after changes have been made in PM. Some files update with the new metadata. Others don't.

Auto Sync Sidebar XMP: Load
Prefer Sidecar XMP over Embedded Metadata is checked

I need to update the ratings on 1000s of images. As far as I can tell the only way to do that is one at a time by manually selecting Image > Load Metadata. And then clicking "Replace" when the "Metadata conflicts..." modal pops up.

How can I do all of them in one shot?

Secondarily, why is this happening?
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  • Ian Leslie
    I have no idea why it would be unreliable but you can manually trigger the update from files with the Image | Load Metadata command.

    Burried on the preferences help page (https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002544898-Metadata-in-XMP-files) is this:
    " Using Full Sync and working with a large collection of new images can hinder performance. In this situation, it's recommended to use the "manual" sync commands, Image > Sync Metadata and Image > Load Metadata. This will achieve the same end result, but without the background sync process slowing things down."

    I had a devil of a time finding that - I opened a support request about the issues I found with their search.
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  • SFA
    Ian,

    I was search for something yesterday in relation to a Knowledge Base article (Phase One camera side of things) that had been linked to in another post. No matter what I tried the P1 KB search did not find it in the early hours of this morning - even search by the full KB number.

    Having seen you comment I was I was going to go ahead and report the problems as I had decided to do ... but ran one more check and up came the KB post Not searched for by KB number) at the top of the list.

    So I guess either the document set has been re-indexed in the past few hours or there is a random search problem in the KB system.

    I'll keep monitoring and see what happens before raising a case.


    Grant
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  • Ian Leslie
    In my case the first set of search terms were a bust (I get that sometimes happens) it was the second set that caused me to feel WTH. Those terms turned up an hit that looked nearly perfect but when I clicked on the link it provided it linked too what turned out to be the parent of the search result instead of the actual article it found. So, looks like a problem of the search results linking to the wrong place. I had to dig for the actual content and search on the page for the text in the result summary for each of the linked child pages until I found it. Not a good search experience. Likely a fixable one though.
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