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Metadata from Camera not displaying in Finder

This is a bit of a photography thread as well, but seems to be a Mac specific issue. Two to three years ago I was shooting on a Canon, and when I would lock the photo in camera, a small key icon appeared next to the photo in finder when I put the SD card in. This is extremely important to my workflow as a photographer.


Now I am shooting on Sony, and when I lock a photo, there is nothing in Finder to tell me as such. It seems to be an external harddrive issue as well, because if I am displaying the photos straight from the SD card, the EXIF metadata does not appear, it's all blank and giving a creation date from 1969. But, if I copy that photo on my Mac's local harddrive, then the metadata appears. There is no key icon to show it is locked though so still doesn't solve my problem.


Here's the only thread I have found on this issue: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4338483


Does anyone have insight into this? I really need to see that lock icon in Finder, and it doesn't really work for me to copy everything onto my Mac drive first (but even though it's just metadata and not the lock).


Thanks

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 15, 2021 10:32 AM

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Posted on Jul 15, 2021 11:27 AM

The visual lock symbol was designed out of Finder icons in Catalina and Big Sur. Now, you must perform a Get Info on the file to see if it is ☑︎ Locked, or not. Even the Finder's Preview settings exclude lock status, and no list view header column tracks locked status either. You can send the macOS product team direct feedback about this visual lock status omission. One exception is that a File chooser may show the lock symbol on the file — until you pass the mouse pointer of the icon and then it vanishes.


I can make you a simple Quick Action where you right-click on a file, choose Quick Actions from the contextual menu, and it produces an alert box if the file is locked. Exorcising the lock symbol from file icons is a step back from common sense. The locked badge icon that used to be overlayed on the file icon remains in the operating system.



Objective-C has the means to get the file icon as an image, transparently overlay that image with the LockedBadgeIcon, and then set this new icon image on the filename. The reverse would be to replace the locked document icon with the default icon for that file type.

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Jul 15, 2021 11:27 AM in response to bennicholsvt

The visual lock symbol was designed out of Finder icons in Catalina and Big Sur. Now, you must perform a Get Info on the file to see if it is ☑︎ Locked, or not. Even the Finder's Preview settings exclude lock status, and no list view header column tracks locked status either. You can send the macOS product team direct feedback about this visual lock status omission. One exception is that a File chooser may show the lock symbol on the file — until you pass the mouse pointer of the icon and then it vanishes.


I can make you a simple Quick Action where you right-click on a file, choose Quick Actions from the contextual menu, and it produces an alert box if the file is locked. Exorcising the lock symbol from file icons is a step back from common sense. The locked badge icon that used to be overlayed on the file icon remains in the operating system.



Objective-C has the means to get the file icon as an image, transparently overlay that image with the LockedBadgeIcon, and then set this new icon image on the filename. The reverse would be to replace the locked document icon with the default icon for that file type.

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Metadata from Camera not displaying in Finder

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