Error saying "Metadata has been changed externally"

I recently added an external hard drive and am now saving my new pictures to that hard drive. Lightroom still lives on my hard drive. I imported some pictures into LR last night and several of them have an arrow icon on them and the error message says "Metadata has been changed externally" but it hasn't. These are DNG files that have not been opened anywhere other than LR. I did synchronize the settings of these pictures, but all within LR. Please help!

Yes, this is a longstanding "feature" of Lr. You know the saying: when bugs exist long enough they become a feature.
It disappears when you uncheck the box <Automatically write changes to xmp>. You still can save to xmp when the box is unchecked but you have to do it manually (select all the images in the Grid View and press Ctrl / Cmd + S).
Another procedure that makes the message disappear (when you leave the box <Automatically write changes to xmp> checked) is to do the <Save metadata to file> (via >Metadata >Save metadata to file - Cmd / Ctrl + S) and immediately do a <Read metadata from file>. You have to do this immediatly after saving to file because the <Read metadata from file> overwrites the catalog data, so you first have to save the catalog settings to file (save metadata to file) and immediately read them back.
The message in itself is not harmful. It says that the "Metadata has been changed externally" but you have to read this "externally" as: metadata has been changed in a different instance of Lr. This seems to be strange. But sometimes Lr has no "memory" of saving the metadata to file because this step has been obliterated in the history panel (by going back to a previous step in the history) and thus this <saving metadata to file>-step is not in the catalog. In this situation Lr "concludes" that the metadata in the file must have been changed externally by a different program.
the message has driven numerous Lr users crazy. But rest assured, your images are safe and sound. And you rmetadata are saved to file.

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