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That's Adobe's fault. They seem to only accept dd/mm/yyyy [time optional]. If you enter "2024-01-01" in the IPTC Core Date Created, you get this alert: I think they are trying to be helpful by using a date format many people are familiar with, but they are just making things more difficult and confusing.  Bridge wants you enter "1/1/2024", which is quietly converted and saved as "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z".    Adding to the mess, the date field format is not consistent across the metadata panel and File Info panels. IPTC Core Date Created:     Date fields should accept dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd. Interestingly, File Info seems to only accept yyyy-mm-dd, the opposite of the metadata panel.  The more I look at this, the worse it gets. Adobe needs to clean this up.               ... View more

What value are your trying to enter?   Yes, Artwork Date Created is expecting a qualified date format which is what the IPTC specification calls for: "Data type: DateTime (preferred: truncated DateTime)"   XMP Date/Time format   Recognizing that this format is not always appropriate for artworks, especially pre-20th centruy or approximate dates, IPTC added Artwork Circa Date Created, which is a simple string format, to the specificatin in 2014. Unfortunatley, Bridge does not currently support Circa Date Created.   ... View more

@konraderer Stephen knows what metadata is and he knows the XMP spec very well. What he's asking is, what specifically do you want to do: map IPTC to DC for input/output, make a DC only metadata panel, or...?   IPTC Core uses several Dublin Core properties.   Creator = dc:creator Description = dc:description Keywords = dc:subject Title = dc:title Copyright Notice = dc:rights   See the IPTC spec for more details. You can open the FIle Info panel and select "Raw Data" to see the DC namespace properties that were entered via the IPTC Core panel.   If you need to use other DC properties, you can build a DC specific panel by using the Custom Metadata Panel.   ... View more

Yes, but the path bar had been dragged into another panel and couldn't be dragged back out. There was no way to grab it. ... View more

I was able to recreate your problem (it took me a while). The only way I was able to get the PathBar back to it's normal position was to use Reset to Saved Layout     ... View more

Go to Preferences > Keywords and see if "Write Hierachical Keywords" is selected. If you turn this off, your keywords should be saved as separate entries separated by semi colons.     ... View more

The extra Tabs are created by Excel when you save as Tab-delimited. Any empty cells in the columns containing text lower down the list will generate a Tab. I don't know how to avoid the problem. You may have to use a text editor, as I did, to clean it up. ... View more

Can you share your tab delimited text file, or part of it, so we can test and find the solution? ... View more

IPTC IIM (Legacy) is an older version that goes back to the very early days of embedded metadata. It has limitations, such as maximum character length. You should use IPTC Core. It is the most widely supported metadata standard at this time.   For backward compatibility, Bridge will duplicate metadata entered in to IPTC IIM into IPTC Core which is why you will see your text in both places. Still, you would be better off using IPTC Core. You can read the definitions of the IPTC fields at https://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/documentation/userguide/    I do not know where the "Attributes" fields display, I can't see them either. I would just ignore them and use IPTC Core.   One thing that makes metadata confusing is the same property, such as <dc:creator>, exists once but it can be displayed in multiple panels. For example, the File Info Panel "Basic" displays <dc:creator> as "Author" while the IPTC panel displays it as "Creator".   The most important thing is to know which standard Forever, or whatever tool/service you are sharing to, can read the metadata you enter. In most cases IPTC Core is suported, but you should test it to be certain.   ... View more

I am not able to recreate the problem you are having. I think the first thing to do is to confirm that the metadata is saved in the files.     Select one of the files and go to  "File Info" --> "Basic" --> "Raw Metadata"  This is the XMP metadata embedded in the file. Look for the <dc:subject> section and see if it contains your expected keywords. You can copy the entire raw metadata text and paste it in a reply here so we can evaluate it.   There are other types of metadata in files. Video files have their own standards besides XMP, but if you saved keywords in Bridge, they should have been saved in the XMP metadata. Once we know what's in the XMP, we can begin to figure out why you are not seeing the keywords.   ... View more

I think the problem is that Windows does not display  the same metadata properties you are using in Bridge. On my English system, Windows uses these IPTC properties:     In your system, I think you would use these properties:   Titre = IPTC Titel Objet = IPTC Beschreibung Notation = Bewertung Mots clés = IPTC Stichwörter Commentaries = ?   Try filling in those fields in Bridge to see if they appear in Windows File Explorer. Unfortunatley, Windows does not allow you to select which properties are shown in the Details window. ... View more

I don't know which platform you are uploading to, but I suspect it is removing the metadata. I know some platforms and social media sites remove metadata as a standard practice.   Your screenshot does not show the Description section of the Windows metadata. Does it contain the same metadata as Bridge?   Also, the after upload screenshot shows Auteurs: Nanjun Gu (LMU Munich) metadata that is not shown in your computer metadata. Was this added automitically by the platform? ... View more

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@Erik Bloodaxe is right: make sure Categories and Suplemental Categories are selected.   The bigger issue is that these fields are not editable in Bridge (there is no text box beside them to enter data). This is probably because IPTC have defined these as depricated and no longer used.  https://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/specification/IPTC-PhotoMetadata#deprecated-iim-metadata-properties   Obvioulsy, the agency you are working with still uses them, so you need to find a  way to enter them. I would first ask them what software they use to create and read these fields. There is a custom metadata panel for Bridge that might allow you to use Categories and Suplemental Categories, but I haven't tested to make sure it will work. https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/cc/103752/custom-metadata-panel  ... View more

Using four digits for your sequence number is what I meant by "padding". The added 0's beofre the sequence number makes sorting more reliable, except it's not working correctly.   Is the problem is that your renamed files are displayed like this when sorted by filename? Smith_J_0001.tif Smith_J_0002.tif Smith_J_0003.tif Smith_J_0004.tif Smith_J_0005.tif Smith_J_0010.tif Smith_J_0011.tif Smith_J_0012.tif Smith_J_0013.tif Smith_J_0014.tif Smith_J_0015.tif Smith_J_0006.tif Smith_J_0007.tif Smith_J_0008.tif Smith_J_0009.tif   Or is the problem that the numbers (e.g., 0006) do not match the page numbers in the book (e.g., page 6)? ... View more

Can you give examples of the file names? Do you pad the sequence numbers with zeros? 001 002 003 ... View more

@Alvin777 when you say renaming to just .jpg didn't work, what do you mean? Did the new name not save (with an alert message window)? Did the name save but the thumbnail still not show the image? It might be that it was changed but you need to purge the cache in order for the thumbnail to reset to show the .jpg image. ... View more

@eggwhiskengineer Download the revised version on DropBox:  https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/h03mlxfeo21v4muwtzfhn/Extract_Metadata_eggwhiskengineer.jsx?rlkey=4ljy7tslyamuxhemdho4k9uef&dl=0   Click the download button at the top: Click "continue with download only" to avoid logging in:   Place this new .jsx file in your StartupScripts folder. Remove the old version to avoid conflicts. ... View more

I'll work on it and post here when it's ready. ... View more

How about changing "Caption Writer" (the person who wrote the caption)? That seems like it could be changed to "Credit Line"   I can help modify the script, just confirm the fields you need. ... View more