# Exporting NLP meta data, so that Mac Photos reads it

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**Created:** [June 23, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/exporting-nlp-meta-data-so-that-mac-photos-reads-it/9463 "2025-06-23T14:26:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Ami](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/Ami)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/exporting-nlp-meta-data-so-that-mac-photos-reads-it/9463/1 "2025-06-23T14:26:39Z")

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I have scanned some 10,000 negatives to which I have added quite a bit of NLP metadata.  
The final destination is Mac Photos.  
Using NLP export, some fields show in Photos as part of the caption but others are lost  
Specifically:

1. Film format (35mm, etc) is lost
2. Lcation (Sublocation, City, State, Country) is written to EXIF but is not read by Photos
3. Date is written to EXIF “Date/Time Original” but l didn’t find which EXIF field it should be copied to so that Photos reads it

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Digitizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Digitizer](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/Digitizer)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/exporting-nlp-meta-data-so-that-mac-photos-reads-it/9463/2 "2025-06-23T14:56:51Z")

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The Fotos.app is peculiar about metadata.

Normally, not much is displayed, and if you press command-I, a separate window will provide more information. Upon import, no metadata should be lost, but is buried in Foto’s database/catalog and some of it will come back upon export. So far so strange.

The best way to find out how to make metadata from visible in Fotos is … to try.  
To test, I set metadata in the source app and see what Fotos will show. Here’s an example checking DxO PhotoLab and Fotos.app. You can test the same things with LrC/NLP metadata. Note that I added metadata according to the respective field name. Like this, I can also see what fields are used - and how they might be localised.

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