Lightroom & Adobe Elements Metadata

Hi, I have catalogued over 20,000 photos using Adobe Elements. I have written extensive descriptions in the Notes field Information>General>Notes. I have now started to use Lightroom but the Notes field in Elements does not show up anywhere in the Lightroom metadata. Is there anything I can do? Thank you

The Notes field in Elements will not transfer directly to Lightroom.
What you can do (and I'm sorry this is somewhat vague, but it has been over 5 years since I went through this myself) is to write the Notes to the photo files (in Elements, select all photos and then File->Write Tag and Properties Info... do this overnight so all 20,000 of your photos now have the Notes written to them); then use something like Exiftool to copy the Notes to some metadata field that Lightroom does import (such as caption or any other field in Lightroom), then import the photos into Lightroom, and your notes will be in Lightroom.

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thanks for mail. I now tried again to activate lightroom by copying the serial number on Adobe webside/my account. Unfortunately same result: I got the following message:
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Den 10/03/2015 kl. 11.37 skrev NicHamilton <[email protected]>:
I got a new MacBook pro and want to install my lightroom and elements 11.
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firstly this is a user to user forum so it's not our website, nevertheless I'm sure we can help you.
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