William Petruzzo
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Hey folks, hoping someone can help me brainstorm a quick bit.
I've made a faux pas. I have exported about 30,000 jpegs from Lightroom (originally raw files). It's now almost 95 percent completed, and has taken nearly 48 hours (which seems long, but when the number gets that high, it's hard to tell). Unfortunately, I accidentally forgot to include the metadata in the export. Now, faced with the prospect of having to export everything again, I'm hoping there might be a way to trick Lightroom into copying the metadata from the raw files over to the jpegs.
The jpegs are stored on a different drive, but in exactly the same directly structure as the orignal raw files, and with exactly the same names, except the extension.
My original thought was to try and trick Lightroom into importing the metadata from the original catalog to a new catalog with the jpegs. Something tells me that's a pipe dream. But I'll have to wait until it's finished exporting to even try.
Nonetheless, I thought that of all the communities I know of, this was the most likely to help me sort this out, if it's even possible.
I've made a faux pas. I have exported about 30,000 jpegs from Lightroom (originally raw files). It's now almost 95 percent completed, and has taken nearly 48 hours (which seems long, but when the number gets that high, it's hard to tell). Unfortunately, I accidentally forgot to include the metadata in the export. Now, faced with the prospect of having to export everything again, I'm hoping there might be a way to trick Lightroom into copying the metadata from the raw files over to the jpegs.
The jpegs are stored on a different drive, but in exactly the same directly structure as the orignal raw files, and with exactly the same names, except the extension.
My original thought was to try and trick Lightroom into importing the metadata from the original catalog to a new catalog with the jpegs. Something tells me that's a pipe dream. But I'll have to wait until it's finished exporting to even try.
Nonetheless, I thought that of all the communities I know of, this was the most likely to help me sort this out, if it's even possible.