ACDSee Forums Topic: IPTC info doesn't display for imported images

ACDSee Forums Topic: IPTC info doesn't display for imported images http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ ACDSee Forums Topic: IPTC info doesn't display for imported images en Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:04:37 +0000 Marc Sabatella on "IPTC info doesn't display for imported images" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/iptc-info-doesn39t-display-for-imported-images#post-27412 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:29:47 +0000 Marc Sabatella 27412@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ FWIW, I went ahead and ran Catalog files on my whole collection last night (in a few batches, to reduce the risk of freezes/crashes) and all seems OK. I then optimized. Although I'm sure there are files on my disk that had been cataloged by 2.0 and converted during the upgrade but which I did not re-catalog last night, I'm also pretty sure nothing I *care* about is in that state. Overall, I'm a little uncomfortable with the condition of my db, and will probably do an export to text and re-import into a clean db at some point, but realistically, everything *seems* to be OK. And unlike what some are reporting, I'm finding if anything, 2.5 is running a little faster than 2.0 to the extent there are any differences. John Radcliffe on "IPTC info doesn't display for imported images" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/iptc-info-doesn39t-display-for-imported-images#post-27264 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:48:03 +0000 John Radcliffe 27264@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Marc, I had the same thing. My database appeared to convert OK (I didn't choose the update thumbnails options), but when I selected a thumbnail the properties pane didn't show the EXIF or IPTC tabs (just Database, File, and Custom), and the relevant sections didn't appear on the Custom tab. Running "Rebuild ..." did the trick, and the tabs and Custom tab data appeared. I find this odd. With previous versions the IPTC and EXIF tabs would be there even if a file had no IPTC or EXIF data: the fields would just have been empty. I don't see how this can be a "feature" (how could one directly enter IPTC data for a image if there's IPTC tab to enter it into), so I'm hoping it's a one-off conversion issue never to be seen again. EDIT: I've just found this related thread <a href='index.php?showtopic=7721'>No EXIF or IPTC tabs in Properties Window</a> Marc Sabatella on "IPTC info doesn't display for imported images" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/iptc-info-doesn39t-display-for-imported-images#post-27219 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:22:40 +0000 Marc Sabatella 27219@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ While trying to reproduce a different problem reported by someone one, I was rather surprised to notice that for most of my JPEG files (which *do* have IPTC info, written long ago by ACDSee), the IPTC tab does not even display! It does for some files, and I'm not clear on the difference. But "most" don't; only "some" do. The most recently JPEGs I had generated do show the IPTC tab, but they aren't so recent that they were generated by 2.5, so it's not that. Also, for files with no IPTC tab, the IPTC area doesn't show under the Custom tab either. There is a heading "IPTC", but nothing under it - not even the field labels. When I bring up the Batch Set Information dialog and try to use the "*" in an IPTC field to display the current contents of that field, it says "The file type does not support iptc". If I try running my usual Batch Set Information template on one of the files with no IPTC tab to copy db fields to IPTC, I get an error "failed to set one or more metadata values". But then the IPTC tab appears and I *am* able to write to it. And when I look at the file with ExifTool, it does look like the IPTC is there, written to both the IPTC and XMP blocks. An XMP block being created by the Batch Set Information operation even if it was not previously present, which that operation didn't used to normally do - unless I suppose, if there was no IPTC block to write to? Actually, I just noticed if I do a "Regenerate thumbs and metatdata" for a file that isn't showing an IPTC tab, it gets the IPTC tab back (assuming the file is physically present - doesn't work on my offline images). So I assume this was a database conversion issue. I *did* select the option to convert my thumbs and exif/iptc metadata, and I *did* get my thumbs. Also, if I do a *search* on some particular aspect of the IPTC data, everything shows up that I expect to show up - the JPEG files just lack an IPTC tab. So it appears the import "sort of" worked - ACDSee is able to search on this IPTC data, but not display it. I'm guessing that the files that *are* displaying IPTC are ones that for whatever reason had been re-cataloged by 2.5. Makes sense, since as I said it was mostly fairly "recent" files - ones in a folder that I'm still adding to.