Metadata - IPTC Image Location data entry

Mac OS X 10.4.9, Lightroom 1.3.1
I have accidentially entered a mistyped spelling for "France" in the "Country" box when entering IPTC Image locatin info.
Now, each time I start typing "France," the menu drops down with the list of all the words I've used that start "Fr..." with the correct and incorrect spelling.
How do I get rid of the incorrect spelling? Is there a way I can delete just that word? Can I delete all of the words that drop down?
MikeS

OK, the solution is found in File/Catalog Settings. Select the Metadata tab; look at "Offer suggestions from recently entered vaules" and click "Clear All Suggestion Lists."
I keep forgetting about the Catalog Settings since it is a separate preference set not part of Preferences.
Mike

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Have clean LR install (no previous beta's) and fresh created database with 1159 images (mixed CR2 and jpg) on PC (AMD 3000+, 1Gig RAM) -and I do know how to maintain WinXP.
I've selected one image and tagged all four IPTC location fields:
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After a while (damn, why this takes so long), fields on the left pane (Metadata Browser) were updated. Then I deleted Location tag and leaved Country, State and City untouched. After a while (again), left pane's content updated and... (I hope you'll understand what I'm trying to say)...
I still see country (Slovenia) there, but it contains zero entries! So I have in total 1159 Location entries, Slovenia zero entries and 1158 Unknown Country -weird. I can click on Slovenia (which is greyed out), but no image gets shown in thumbnail preview. If I look after this particular image manually, I can still see that image's Country is Slovenia (and I can also find image using Find: IPTC=Slovenia). Also I don't see State and City entries (which are "Doma") anymore in left pane.
Yes, I've closed and reopened LR, but things remain the same. There's no way I can force LR to refresh it's database.
Before continuing I need to say, that I AM database approach fan. Here and there I can read LR's database (workflow, speed,..) isn't so bad after all.. and that some are too picky, complaining all the time.... Let me tell, that LR's database approach is one of the worst I've seen so far:
Reflections (updating on the left pane) to every correction made by user takes way too long. Actually I wouldn't care about that (being done in background), but if you type fast enough (on the right pane) and edit your mistakes here and there, then you simply cannot know how far have you come -it takes too long before left pane is up to date.
Why can't I simply select couple of images and drag them into desired Location field (simila as with Keywords)? It's a basic task. Why there's no simply way to see untaged (Not Keyworded, Not Localized, Not edited) files? Yes, I can do something of that with Color/Star/Flag labeling, but why increasing workflow?
I suppose Collections is something like "Albums" in other DAM's. If I click on some thumbnail, how can I know in which collection image is (if in any)?
Why I cannot select (in Collections, Keywords,...) only images which are in selected parent tree (subtree content excluded)?
In short: user shouldn't notice there's database working behind -in this case, I'm quite sure, everybody will like "database paradigm".
Greetings to all,
Bogdan

I think I'm getting to understand IPTC Location issue here (if somebody interested)...
On the left panel (Metadata Browser), tag Location (once filled with some string) has the the lowest (deepest) position in the tree:
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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.
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Gudday fellow iPhone warriors, here's my vexing issue:
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Thanks for the prompt response!
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There are some other apps that allow for exporting Geo Data to SMS (one example is called "GeoDataToSms" iirc). I'm subtly disappointed that third party apps would be the only solution here. I can build an app, but its adding complexity that I would rather not be worried about.
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More Image Time/Date Questions

I hate to keep bringing up Time/Date/Time Zone related issues, but it seems I have another...
I have certain images for which I have changed the date and time and time zone. The metadata reflects the proper time, date and time zone, but oddly, when I filter the images based on "Capture Day of Month" I get results that cause me problems.
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I just got back from some travels. I just checked again and it seems to now be working. It really is the strangest thing. Basically, I checked it both ways. I went into a project that had images from multiple days (I now want to separate my images into projects by the day they were shot on). I picked two filter scenarios: 1) "Date", where I specified, "Capture Day of Month" "is" and I typed "15" and 2) "EXIF", where I specified, "Capture Day of Month" "is" and I typed "15". It did not work when I had all of the images lumped into one project. I subsequently manually sorted my images by looking at the date of each one before moving them into their new respective projects. Now that they are in their own projects, it seems to working.
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Perhaps it is a camera issue and not a software issue? Maybe camera manufacturers need to make their products more like our phones, where the time is registered automatically based on your GPS location. I am not sure if GPS enabled cameras have this capability. The computer should be able to recognize this GPS stamped time and embed the data directly into the image. Science fiction? Perhaps.
There are far too many obstacles that get in the way and mistakes are easily made along the way. As mentioned, Aperture allows you to correct these "mishaps", but not with the type of ease you would hope for. Unless you shoot and upload all of your images in your own time zone and have your camera clock and computer clock synced and set correctly, you are bound to have inaccuracies along the way. This is a shame for those who try to manage this stuff down to the "T".
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