Bridge CS3 2.1.1.9 and Lighroom 2.1 Losing Rating Information. HELP!

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Stewart_Hunt
Oct 19, 2008
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I currently use PS CS3 (with Bridge 2.1.1.9) and Lightroom 2.1. A really frustrating problem has surfaced. Sometimes I lose all or some of my rating information for the thumbnails, in both or either program.

I’m sure you can imaging how much of a pain this is for my workflow. I set ratings manually after import in Lightroom. Sometimes those ratings transfer across to Bridge and sometimes they don’t. What is happening here?

Do I need to purge my cache? I thought the rating information was appended to the metadata of the image. Perhaps I am wrong.

Any help with this frustrating problem is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Stew.
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Mylenium
Oct 19, 2008
The ratings are stored in invisible custom XML files in the directories containing the images, which may be part of your problem – if you don’t see them, you cannot move them around. Therefore you will probably just have to adjust your Explorer view settings (Show all files).

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Stewart_Hunt
Oct 19, 2008
Thanks. I have explorer set to show hidden files, so I don’t think this is the problem.

Thanks though.
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Mylenium
Oct 19, 2008
Mmh, then perhaps the XML data is incompatible. Not sure how to fix it, though, as I don’t use LR and in general don’t work much with photographic stuff that would require involving Bridge or LR (I only have a 4 year old 3.8 mp cam for those birthday snapshots…);-).

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Garrett_Burdick
Oct 19, 2008
Hi Stewart,
I was just having this same problem. I had spent two hours rating files in Adobe Bridge and then wanted to work on them in Lightroom. I finally found the fix…

In Adobe Lightroom select the image or images and goto the Metadata menu and click on "Read Metadata from File". That worked for me.

Good LUCK,

Garrett

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