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Inspiring
July 16, 2021
Question

bridgesort files -- need to retrieve comments

  • July 16, 2021
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Situation: a curator (art) has provided comments or ratings to a collection of images I posted on DropBox.
She sent them (and assumedly made them with bridge(?) however following all the links about this file, I cannot figure out how to access this information. 
Please advise.
Also please note that I use Bridge extensively and cannot risk her bridgesort to override my label and rating system. 

 

I'd really appreciate if someone can help me resolve this quickly.

Thanks,

SH

(Digression: this is so curious that someone would do their commenting and send it using bridgesort when the Dropbox comment feature works quite well.)

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Legend
July 16, 2021

Metadata is either stored inside the file or (for RAW files) in an XMP sidecar file. If she made metadata changes, all you need is the file to access those changes.

SHINCAuthor
Inspiring
July 16, 2021

I'm not sure if this person would even know how to modify the metadata --  however I will check.  

One concern, if she did, is would it overwrite any metadata I input, or could this metadata input be merged with mine.

Under no circumstances can I lose what I have.

Thank you in advance if you can shed like on that detail.

Best,  Shelley

Legend
July 16, 2021

If I make a change, it applies to that file and yes would overwrite any previous metadata. Its no different than opening the file and editing the content.

If she made changes to files you have, that means you have two copies with different metadata. You would have to figure out what to keep or discard.