Why don’t Windows Explorer “Comments” and “Subject” metadata appear in Lightroom?
Asked 12/6/2015
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I added information to a few JPEGs in Windows File Explorer using the “Comments” and “Subject” fields. After importing those files into Adobe Lightroom, I can’t find that metadata anywhere. Does Lightroom support those fields, or does Windows store them in a way Lightroom doesn’t read?
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Jeffrey Friedl's Metadata Viewer plugin for Lightroom may prove helpful. It should provide you with a way to work with the fields that Windows allowed you to add your information.
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Lightroom may not show those values because Windows Explorer often writes them into Windows-specific EXIF fields rather than the metadata fields Lightroom commonly uses.
From the answers provided, Explorer’s “Comments” can be stored in tags like XPComment (and similar XP* fields defined in EXIF 2.3 as “used by Windows”). Lightroom does not reliably recognize those tags, so the information may be present in the file but not visible in Lightroom.
If you want to confirm what was written, a metadata inspection tool such as Jeffrey Friedl’s Metadata Viewer plugin for Lightroom may help reveal those fields.
So the short answer is: the metadata may exist, but Lightroom doesn’t fully support or display those Windows-specific EXIF tags.
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