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Photos not exporting metadata

Many of my photographs are scanned images. I import them to Photos and add a description and keywords then export them to add to my online gallery. This process worked fine until, I presume, the recent update to Big Sur.


Now I cannot get them to export with metadata by using the export process, despite ticking the box to include this data. I have just tried dragging to the Finder and that, bizarrely, works. I fail to see why using the normal route of the export command (which in any case gives you more options than dragging) should not work.


Combined with the recent failure of Photos to correctly plot Geodata (raised as a separate issue) it is rapidly becoming a very poor product. Whilst I've clearly found a workaround, I don't understand why I've suddenly had to. Unannounced changes to workflow are very disruptive - the time I've spent investigating this problem I would rather have put to better use.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Nov 28, 2020 10:29 AM

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Posted on Nov 28, 2020 10:35 AM

Hi - This seems to be a bug in big sur.

Exporting to TIF format seems to keep the metadata.


If you want to report this bug to apple, this is the form to use. (We are just users here, like you)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiS0c_O8KXtAhXMEcAKHapnBD8QFjAAegQIBBAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Ffeedback%2Fphotos.html&usg=AOvVaw1D1jrpuKObs3yyKQI1Iepd

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Nov 28, 2020 10:35 AM in response to Tramtrack

Hi - This seems to be a bug in big sur.

Exporting to TIF format seems to keep the metadata.


If you want to report this bug to apple, this is the form to use. (We are just users here, like you)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiS0c_O8KXtAhXMEcAKHapnBD8QFjAAegQIBBAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Ffeedback%2Fphotos.html&usg=AOvVaw1D1jrpuKObs3yyKQI1Iepd

Jan 5, 2021 9:30 PM in response to DexTheRottweiler

DexTheRottweiler, your problem seems quite different from the one that started this thread. You would be more likely to receive useful debugging assistance if you started your own thread with a title and description that match your own problems. Be sure to quote the exact error response; even better would be to include a screen shot showing the exact image of the situation.

Photos not exporting metadata

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