Why does Lightroom’s Facebook Publish Service mark photos as modified when I didn’t edit them?
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In Lightroom, some photos in the Facebook Publish Service are being flagged as needing to be republished, even though I didn’t intentionally edit the images themselves. Is there any way to see what change triggered the republish status—such as develop settings, keywords, metadata, or something else?
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This is a bug and it is still present in LR4. LR-Facebook publish thinks that it has been changed even if it hasn't or only in irrelevant ways for Facebook.
Particularly, this happens to me if you re-authenticate into Facebook, or if you make a change to your FB-publish settings.
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Often this is not a specific visible photo edit you can track. Lightroom’s Facebook Publish Service has been known to incorrectly flag images as modified, including after re-authenticating Facebook or changing publish-service settings. Changes on Facebook’s side can also create a mismatch that Lightroom interprets as needing a republish.
Other things that may trigger republish include metadata-related changes such as renaming keywords in Lightroom’s keyword list, and possibly moving photos to a different folder.
You can check the photo’s History panel for develop changes, but that won’t necessarily reveal publish-service or external sync issues. In practice, there isn’t a reliable built-in audit trail that tells you exactly which parameter caused the Facebook publish status to change. So if the image looks unchanged, the republish flag may simply be due to a publish-service inconsistency or bug rather than an actual edit.
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