Error writing metadata when Importing Lr 2.7 catalog in Lr 3 final

Hi,
I imported (and sucessfully converted) my Lr 2.7 Catalog in Lr3 final but now, all my photos have this little icon that says " Error writing metadata "
Why?
Thx!

According to Martin Evening in his Lightroom 2 book p. 178, "If you see the icon shown in Figure 4.74 [the !], click to open the dialog box where you can either choose Import Setting from Disk if you think the external settings are right, or choose Overwrite Settings if you think the Lightroom catalog settings are the most up to date."
If you did not edit these images in another program like Camera Raw some unknown event caused Lightroom to indicate that the files were edited in another program. In this case you probably do not want to include this edit. It will probably work out if you choose Overwrite Settings which will keep the settings that you have in the LR database, disregard the changes from outside LR, and remove the !.
If you edited these images in another program and you want to keep those changes, choose Import Settings from Disk to bring the external settings into the LR database.
If you want to write the LR settings to the DNG files go to Metadata > Save Metadata to File or (Ctrl-S). I strongly recommend saving LR settings to the file. Others disagree. In the Catalog Settings under Metadata, check Automatically Write Changes to XMP, if you prefer this to be done automatically.
Whatever you do, be sure to backup your LR database, at least two or three times, and be sure that all of you images are backed up.
Follow the above procedures by doing a few files at a time, and check that you are getting what you want before doing them all.

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My result is that the renamed files throw the error, and the other files do not. Try this #2.
Put about 20 RAW files in a folder.
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My result is that the renamed files throw the error, and the other files do not. Try this #2.
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Sorry to say but I can't reproduce your scenario. Tried the demo of PhotoMechanic (4.6.8) and used it together with my Bridge (version 4.0.5.11 on Mac OSX 10.6.8) as you stated in your post.
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