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Old 04-08-2008   #1 (permalink)
intclass


 
 

Some tags not being embedded (WPG).

I have tagged photos with multiple tags after importing them into Windows
Live Photo Gallery, but when I copied them to another computer, the tags were
gone.

I investigated and it seems that the tags aren't even being saved to the
files - I thought tags were supposed to be embeded into the file, so why
aren't these tags embeded?

This is frustrating as I don't want to be tagging all of my photos and
videos twice. Is this a bug or something else?

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Old 04-09-2008   #2 (permalink)
John Inzer


 
 

Re: Some tags not being embedded (WPG).

intclass wrote:
Quote:

> I have tagged photos with multiple tags after importing them into
> Windows Live Photo Gallery, but when I copied them to another
> computer, the tags were gone.
>
> I investigated and it seems that the tags aren't even being saved to
> the files - I thought tags were supposed to be embeded into the file,
> so why aren't these tags embeded?
>
> This is frustrating as I don't want to be tagging all of my photos and
> videos twice. Is this a bug or something else?
====================================
As you may read in the following article,
if at all possible, all metadata will be written
back to the image files.

Metadata and the Windows
Vista Photo Gallery
http://tinyurl.com/3994ha
or...
http://blogs.msdn.com/pix/archive/20...16/702780.aspx

Metadata that cannot be written back to the
image files will be written to the Photo Gallery
database. This database is named "Pictures.pd4"
and is found at the following location.

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\
Windows Photo Gallery\Pictures.pd4

The file can also be found with an Advanced
Search for pd4.

Go to...Start / Search / Advanced Search.

Check the box..."Include non-indexed, hidden,
and system files" Enter pd4 in the Name field
and left click the Search button.

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk


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