![]() You’ll not that it’s totally uninteresting to go through this exercise with Apple Photos that don’t have keywords. ![]() I did this on the Apple “original” photos I had in my collection. select those photos through a filter or smart collection and delete them.import that metadata back to the Apple Photos folders, matching the delete flag column on the “job identifier” field (for example).edit it in Google Sheets and add a “delete” flag column.use the metadata filter on my master folders to select all photos that had just been modified by LR/Transporter.So once I had imported the keywords from Apple Photos, I had only to: Thankfully, LR/Transporter flags photos that have last been modified by it. ![]() I would have to find a way, however, to flag the photos in the Apple Photos folders from which I had extracted and imported the metadata - because those that remained, “non-duplicates”, would need to be moved to the main folder. That meant that if I could export a list of keywords of my Apple Photos (with LR/Transporter) and import it onto photos that were already in the catalog, matching the keywords to files with the same name, I could avoid importing duplicate files and having to hunt them down afterwards. LR/Transporter allows you to import metadata to a photo based on a filename or a capture date. This also allowed me to get rid of “Edited in Apple Photos” photos which were so close to the original photos it wasn’t worth importing a duplicate bloated JPG just for fun. I tried various settings and experimented quite a bit. I used Photosweeper to weed out duplicates from my Apple Photos. Here’s a bunch of thing I did, best I remember. There was my solution, though it was tedious, and the result is not perfect. So I ended up looking at Photosweeper and LR/Transporter. A little scary to run on the whole catalog, and I haven’t managed to get it working predictably enough to trust it. My next hope had to do with using the Syncomatic plugin to sync metadata between files with similar names or capture times. I figure it has something to do with the hash Lightroom uses to identify photos. So my bright idea of using this system to update the metadata of photos in the master catalog came crashing to the ground. One little problem: importing from catalog didn’t recognize any of the photos in the temporary catalog full of photos from Apple as duplicates of those already in the master catalog.
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