Saving Metadata to Files NOT Working?

Hey guys,
I have been using lightroom to organize my files with keywords on my windows computer and I just realized that I could embed the keywords into files by using the feature "Save Metadata to Files". So I tried using it by selecting photos that had keywords in lightroom. Then, I click the feature under metadata and it started going through the process. After the writing of xmp data was done, there still were no keywords in the files. I tried the same thing on my mac, and low and behold it worked!!! ...But why can't I get it to work with my windows computer? That is where all my files are stored and my main catalog is on that computer... Let me know the solution please... Thanks!

I don't use windows for photography, so I don't really know. I just know you
cannot see the metadata in the original files. You should be able to read it
when you export images from Lightroom, in which case LR uses a different
metadata standard that windows should know how to read. This is just an
issue for originals that you export metadata into, in which case Lightroom
uses xmp metadata. Bridge (comes with Adobe CS4) will work fine as a
browser/indexer for these files as of course Lightroom itself does and I am
sure there are others. That said, you might not want to be looking at your
originals in Explorer or anything else. They are meant to be untouched by
Lightroom or anything else for that matter.  Perhaps Dorin knows some good
browsers/viewers that you can use on the windows side if you really need to
browse these folders and see the metadata. I've heard irfanview is
good but I wouldn't know.

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