Editing metadata with masters offline, then syncing XMP

I love LR (and Aperture for that matter) for the ability to reference a large collection of external masters and keep previews and metadata locally on a MacBook. I usually edit the metadata in LR -- rating, rotating, etc. In continuous XMP export mode which I'd set, and the external harddrive is mounted, the sidecars next to the masters get updated immediately.
However, when I edit away from my external harddrive, and then plug it in, I don't see LR noticing and updating the XMPs in need of updating -- those next to the masters of the images whose metadata I touched offline. I have to manually select the "suspect" images and do Sync XMP on them. So in order not to write down an exact list of all the images I touched every time offline, I select a whole shoot and run Sync XMP on it -- fortunately, that updates only those XMPs which indeed need updating.
In LR Beta 4.1 I'm using now, I don't see a way to manually Sync XMP for the whole library easily -- how can you select all photos and run Sync XMP on them?
And for those lucky previewers with 1.0 -- is it smart enough to sync those XMPs which need syncing on its own, or you still have to manually initiate the sync after reconnecting the masters with their sidecars?

We've discussed it with John Beardy at The Dam Book's forum:
http://thedambook.com/smf/index.php?topic=1664.0

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You uncheck the music in your iTunes library on your computer and along with sync only checked songs and videos selected under the Summary selection for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes, only checked songs in your iTunes library will be transferred to your iPhone or remain on your iPhone and the unchecked songs in your iTunes library that are currently on your iPhone will be removed when syncing.
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Apply metadata to unlinked photos, then sync MD when files available

I share my master catalog between a desktop and a laptop. The desktop has all the master files (on RAIDs, archived drives, etc.), so all I have access to when I use LR3 on my laptop are the previews of my files. While I know I obviously can't edit (develop) missing files, what I'd love to be able to do is annotate on my laptop, then when I copy the catalog over to the desktop, it will sync this metadata to the actual xmp sidecar files. As it stands now, one can only apply metadata when the linked files are attached.

So, what the camera writes, the Exif metadata, is inside the photo file, or in another hidden file for each photo?
It’s “inside” the file.
How come then it happens that sometimes the date changes after you've written the pictures on a CD, and imported them from that later... shouldn't the metadata stay with the file? It happens mostly with early camera phone pictures...
A photo can lose the metadata in imperfect copies, or - in the case of early camera phones - there may have been none at all. In which case iPhoto uses the File “Date Created” instead.
I have a lot of pictures whose dates I really had to change because they were wrong - I just hope this work won't go down the drain further down the road... perhaps when importing into a new Mac, or when using a different program altogether...?
In the case of moving to a new Mac:
Simply move the Library to the new machine. That will get all the data, metadata, originals, edited versions and so on.
In using a different application:
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2. If it doesn’t, then you export the Pics from iPhoto (File -> Export) and check the box at Title and Keywords. This will mean that your Titles, Keywords +and Descriptions+ (though not explicitly mentioned) will be written to the IPTC data.
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Anyone use CS3 with Win7 offline file syncing?

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Editing metadata in a TIFF image

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to edit TIFF image metadata using ImageIO v1.1 APIs, but something goes wrong...
For a TIFFImageWriter I get the following results:
writer.canInsertEmpty = true
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writer.canWriteSequence = trueSo editing metadata with writer.replaceImageMetadata is not possible (I verified this, an exception is thrown). I thought I could remove an entire image and reinsert it with new metadata, but as you can see writer.removeImage is unavailable, too.
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Huh... I am in bitmap... OK, how would I go about changing to RGB? Not a complete novice, but never had a similar problem before.

Aperture masters and metadata with other DAMs?

OK, after the recent lack of an announcement about Aperture updates or revisions at PMA I'm evaluating other DAMS: Bridge, Lightroom, iView (am I missing any other good ones?)
(Off Topic: Unlike many it's not the unsupported RAW issue that has me upset, rather it's the way that features that have been in the program since v1.0 still don't operate smoothly or slow down for no good reason. Why does doing a "Select All" on my 32K image library take 15-minutes?)
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I have synced my ipad with my computer then downloaded latest ios version. How do I resync my data back to my ipad?

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