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Question: I have a few programs for looking at my digital library one of which is Windows Photo Gallery. I have recently noticed that "Star Ratings" dont show in Photo Gallery if I add them in Lightroom 2.0. The opposite is true if I add them in Photo gallery, they then don't show up in Lightroom. Any other tags due get propagated to both applications it's just the star ratings that seem to get lost.
Thanks in advance,
RR

> Any other tags due get propagated to both applications it's just the star ratings that seem to get lost.
If you change metadata in a file outside of Lightroom you'll need to update the metadata FROM the file. If you update from within Lightroom you'll need to update TO the file. All metadata is stored in Lightroom in the database and is only propagated to the files if you tell Lightroom to. You can set the preference to auto-write to xmp metadata (there may be a performance hit). In the case of editing an image outside of Lightroom, well, there's no automatic way to update the file's metadata, the thought is that you'll be doing it inside Lightroom ya know?

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