[SOLUTION FOUND] IPTC Keyword question

[WendyParticipant]

OK this is not Symbio specific, I wonder if anyone else has any experience on why this is happening.

I have keywords entered into IPTC but on some of my files they are coming across as one big long keyword not separated. It has happened on another site that I know of too so I am sure it is something wrong with my file … I am wondering if anyone has any clues as to why it might be happening.

I will admit that I am not sure if it is keywords entered via Photoshop or in the Windows File environment.

[Imago BorealisParticipant]

When you open an image on your computer with ExifTool or similar software, what do you see?

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[WendyParticipant]

I downloaded exiftool but wasnt sure what I was seeing …. if I look in Adobe Bridge all the keywords look like they are comma separated.
But on some files it shows as one word. I am guessing more research is needed … its just a tad annoying not to be able to work it out.

[WendyParticipant]

I have worked it out, looking at the files that have not copied correctly, something has inserted quote marks in … so the IPTC is seeing it as one keyword …. now to work out why this happened …

[ArieneParticipant]

I have the same problem but I was preparing files with IPTC for Alamy mostly and so I didn’t use commas. That makes one big keyword 😉 Now I have to re-edit and fix all my 1,6k files…
Adding commas in photoshop helps.

Quote marks makes different to. And this one ‘
It destoyed all my descriptions as well. So we can’t use any special marks.

[WendyParticipant]

That would have been annoying Ariene. I think what has happened is that I pasted the keywords in the file area in windows… lesson learned, will do it all in PS now.
I try not to use special characters anywhere because they never translate properly.

[ArieneParticipant]

@wendy wrote:

… I think what has happened is that I pasted the keywords in the file area in windows… lesson learned, will do it all in PS now…

Same here! 👿 I was to lazy to open file in PS… Many images data are bad now.

[cascolyBlocked]

another factor is that the characters dash, quote & double quote do not generate the same ascii codes on all keyboards, esp international ones – so even programs that strip out quotes can get confused

[WendyParticipant]

@ariene wrote:

@wendy wrote:

… I think what has happened is that I pasted the keywords in the file area in windows… lesson learned, will do it all in PS now…

Same here! 👿 I was to lazy to open file in PS… Many images data are bad now.

Oh dear …. I guess we made more work for ourselves trying to do things the easy way … 😳

@cascoly wrote:

another factor is that the characters dash, quote & double quote do not generate the same ascii codes on all keyboards, esp international ones – so even programs that strip out quotes can get confused

Good to know … not to self don’t use special characters … ever! 😐

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