# DT3 Custom Metadata

**URL:** https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt3-custom-metadata/46980
**Category:** DEVONthink
**Tags:** bug-report, devonthink3
**Created:** [May 6, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt3-custom-metadata/46980 "2019-05-06T11:33:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![valente](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/valente/32/81_2.png) [@valente](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/valente)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt3-custom-metadata/46980/1 "2019-05-06T11:33:11Z")

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Hello,

The potential of having custom metadata is starting to be very obvious to me. Great new feature!

However, I seem to have found a bug: when I select multiple files and try to batch some metadata, all the previous placed metadata values disappear.

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### Author: ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt3-custom-metadata/46980/2 "2019-05-06T12:31:00Z")

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> [@valente](#):
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> However, I see to have found a bug: when I select multiple files and try to batch some metadata, all the previous placed metadata values disappear.

Thanks, we’ll check this.