Adobe Lightroom 3's Bad English and Dubious Message

If you've visited this blog before you know that I'm a proponent of using Adobe Bridge as an inexpensive means of organizing and archiving a large image library. However, you might also recall that I use Adobe Lightroom as a way of verifying the files I've organized and uploaded to our server through Bridge (and as a way of perhaps anticipating the future direction of our organization).

Now, you'd think that with the gazillions of dollars Adobe makes they could hire people who code their programs with proper English -- but that nuisance aside, this is an error message that is simply pregnant with danger:

Here's where things can get a bit hazy if not downright confusing. The important thing here is to know which of the two settings is the newest -- if you choose wrong you could lose a fair amount of hard work not to mention the metadata.

Just be careful.