Subject Distance in EXIF Data

Now that LR 2.6 reads EXIF Subject Distance into the catalogue, does anyone know how this information can be added for images that have been imported using previous versions of LR?
Tony

Thanks Ian,
Read Metadata from File isn't the answer since doing this obliterates everything that has been added to the metadata since the original import, but does add the Subject Distance.  I'm using RAW (NEF) files without xmp sidecars.  If I save to xmp and then Read Metadata from File, it works.  I just hoped there might be a simpler way to get the Subject Distance into the catalogue.  I also have many jpg images in my catalogue (before I started shooting raw) and the xmp solution can't be applied to those, although I could save the metadata to the jpg files (I don't really want to do that either).  I originally started with a Nikon D50 and those images have Subject Distance in their Exif data, so the information is there for all my images, I just need an easy way to get it into the catalogue.

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