Hi

I have spent a lot of time creating 64 different tags and adding them to about 2000 images. I mistakenly thought that MyPhotoIndex actually edits the IPTC/XMP metadata on the images themselves... but it looks like it does not do this.

I have opened the MyPhotoIndex.mdb file and looked at the "Images" table which has fields: "Id", "FullPath" and "ImageTags" but the data in the "ImageTags" field is not accessible.

I want to export a data file (csv) which shows me the link between "ID" or "FullPath" and "ImageTags" so that I can use another application to convert these tags into metadata on the actual images themselves.

How can I create this data file?

Regards

Thomas

Hi Asaf - thanks for your quick response here!

I am using MDBPlus to view & export the data file (csv).

I have not yet decided which application to use for writing this data file to metadata on the actual images, but there is one called ExifTool. Another options is to modify the data from the csv file to create a batch file that automatically moves these images into folders according to their tags. Then I could manually tag these using an application like iTag.

There is also an adobe forum which has a script that can be run in Bridge CS3 to automate metadata writing from csv files - http://forums.adobe.com/thread/287397.... So that's another option...

Regards

Thomas

Thanks for this Asaf! Very much appreciated. Will check it out now...

Thomas