When I tried to edit my User Profile in SharePoint 2010, I found some properties disabled with this error, “There was a problem retrieving data for this field. Updating values in this field is disabled temporarily. You can still update values in other fields." This is because Managed Metadata Service Application Proxy’s properties were not properly set.
To resolve this issue, I opened Managed Metadata Service Application Proxy’s properties.
And check first two option.
1. This service application is the default storage location for Keywords.
2. This service application is the default storage location for column specific term sets.
After clicking OK, when I again tried to edit my User Profile properties, everything was working fine.
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