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davids18020081
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September 11, 2018
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How to write Windows Live Photo Gallery tags/keywords to photo metadata

  • September 11, 2018
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Windows Live Photo Gallery did not write its tags or keywords to the proper place the metadata.  Windows 10 File Explorer can identify them and sort photos using them.  How can I get this data written to the metadata, so that I can import the tags with the photos into Lightroom Classic CC?

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johnrellis
johnrellis
Genius
September 11, 2018

You can use the free ExifTool to copy them into the correct industry-standard location. ExifTool has a pretty steep learning curve, but if you upload a couple of sample photos to Dropbox and post the sharing links here, I'll give you an ExifTool recipe.

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davids18020081Author
Participant
September 12, 2018

Can it do so for a large number of photos, or would it require photo by photo operations?

johnrellis
johnrellis
Genius
September 12, 2018

It can do an entire folder or hierarchy of folders at once.

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