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EXIF information disappeared! Any ideas?

Almost all of the EXIF information disappeared from some (not all) of my 5 star images. Only the camera, lens and exposure information vanished - it was all there at one time. The fields now appear blank.

All of the images that this happened to have a weird profile name: "kCGColorSpaceGenericHDR". I have no idea what this is from.

At the top of the inspector panel, it says "Unknown Canera" and "Unknown Lens". Yet, it recogizes that the image was shot in RAW and shows the focus points

All non-5-star images have all the EXIF data remaining.I've rebuilt the library to no avail. Any ideas?

The only change I've made recently is to add the complete NIK collection. It was shortly after this that the problem appeared, but may be completely unrelated.

Any ideas?

Running Aperture 3.2.3, Lion 10.7.3

17" MacBook Pro

Thanks for any help and advice!

Charlie MacPherson

Posted on Apr 28, 2012 5:56 AM

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léonie

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Posted on Apr 28, 2012 6:37 AM

Have those images with missing EXIF been externally edited - with a plug-in or an external editor? Maybe when the new quasi master has been created, to be passed to the plug-in or editor- the EXIF was not copied to the new master?

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léonie

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May 7, 2012 2:13 PM in response to Kirby Krieger

My 😠 was directed at the Jive-software, never at you, Kirby - I understood your ours well 😀

léonie

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May 7, 2012 2:19 PM in response to Charlie MacPherson

Charlie, thank you for posting the solution, and congratulations for rescuing your pictures.

It is terrifying to think that you even with three backups had a near miss.

I had a look at the blog and am really impressed by the exiting wildlife expedition you do. When would be the best time of the year to watch polar bears?

Regards

Léonie

EXIF information disappeared! Any ideas?