Metadata 'caption' field locked - cannot change

This is very odd. I have a caption I want to change, and I can type in new text, but when I leave the field it reverts to the former text. There are no other programs running. Wha' hoppen?
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TIA _ Chuck

DJ - FWIW I installed 2.2 and still have the problem.
OK, I have found the problem. If any photo has a Caption field with the example text using upper case, if you type in a Caption in another photo using exactly the same text LR will change it to the upper case version. This happens even when you "Clear All Suggestion Lists" in the Catalog settings. My problem was that another photo in a sub-folder had the capitalized text and getting rid of it in the top folder wasn't enough.
So the answer is to change one photo to different text (doesn't matter what), synchronize all relevant photos to the first one, and then you can type in the desired lower case text and LR will not interfere.
It's not about auto-completing, but why LR should want you to have complete agreement on upper and lower case from photo to photo is interesting.

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<blockquote>
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