Metadata conflict on all images

When I opened LR 5.7 yesterday, All - and I mean ALL of my thumbnails showed an exclamation icon in the upper right. Clicking on the icon, I get a "metadata for this photo has been changed by both LR and another application". I only use LR for metadata edits, so I am not sure why the error is showing up. Any suggestions or corrective actions would be appreciated.

Ian - A timestamp issue? Perhaps LR thinks the timestamp of those photos is now different than it
thought prior to LR2? This is pure conjecture but I base this theory on two things:
- LR2 now correctly handles timestamps where LR1 had well known bugs. So there may be a change here
that affects you.
- I've seen many pieces of software that choke on file timestamps when crossing a daylight savings
time change. Anything that needs to compare two copies of the timestamps for the same file has to
deal with this correctly and it's not necessarily trivial. I'm not saying LR2 doesn't handle this
properly - just a thought.
If it were me, I'd look at the timestamps in the XMP files and compare those to the times displayed
in the LR2 GUI.
db

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I imported some pictures to Lightroom and edited them there normally. After closing lightroom I edited the location information via GeoSetter (www.geosetter.de). Looking at the images via ACDSee, I see correctly entered City, Sublocation, Procince, Country Code and Country Name in the IPTC data.
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>will this method not revert any prior changes made to the images? (e.g. Crop, Keywords, Local Adjustments).
It will, which as you have already figured out, isn't a good idea.
I don't know anything about Geosetter, but my guess is that it's writing the data back into the original photos. Unfortunately, Lightroom doesn't see these changes when Sync folder command is used because it's looking for a Metadata Change date, which is normally stored in XMP. There is a workaround though.
You haven't mentioned the type of files that you're working with, but I'll assume they're raw. If so the workaround is to use the Lr "Save Metadata to file" command before working on them with the external application (Geosetter). This will create an XMP file for each photo that contains all your existing metadata plus any Develop adjustments. Now you can save the new IPTC back to the files using Geosetter. Once that part is completed you can use the "Read Metadata from file" command knowing that all your original Lr metadata and develop adjustments will be copied back along with the new IPTC info.
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I finally got a handle on the Keywords & hierarchies and made sure that all my keywords will export. I then went back to Title & Caption all my images. For the 4 previous folders of images when I did that, when it told me that there was a metadata conflict, I would just hit "resolve" and it would fix it and tell me it is "up to date". I am ONLY keywording and adding captions in Lightroom 4.4. I am not using an external editor. I have my LR images in ".dng" Now, I just finished 2 more folders and when I tried to resolve the conflict, it gave me an error message on all of them. The metadata status in the right pane says"Changed on disk" (but still shows the alert on my image)
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