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[SleepyDeux]

Is there a way to re-initialize an index/crawl of the EXIF metadata inside images (JPGs)?

I have several thousand images in subdirectories under a folder that I've added to my Image library in MC (29.0.28 x64 on Win11 Pro 21H2), but only a dozen or so have actually parsed the EXIF data (or at least replaced the File Name with the Title field from the image's metadata when viewing in MC).  The rest of the images still show the filename as the image Name value when viewing in MC.

I thought maybe I was just being impatient, but left the computer online over night (with MC running) and still have the same (dozen-ish) images showing the "updated" Name field in MC.  Editing image Properties using Windows Explorer and changing the Title field seems to trigger a rescan of the metadata for that single image in MC within a few minutes, but I would like to avoid having to script edits to +50k images.

[JimH]

Try Update Library from Tags on a couple of files.

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Library_Tools

[SleepyDeux]

Thanks!  That doesn't seem to have made changed the behavior.  I selected a file and clicked the "Update Library (from tags)" option, received a "Processed 1 files (0 failures)" dialog, then repeated those steps for two other files.  I waited a few minutes, refreshed the view, switched folders and came back to the folder I updated files on, and still no change reflected in the Library.

I also tried closing the MC app and re-opened, but still no change.

Attached is a snippet of the log after attempting a single "Update Library (from tags)" operation.

JRMC29 is still running in Trial/Eval mode because I was trying to validate my use cases before upgrading my previous license (MC 20).

[dtc]

The TAG function can return EXIF fields. That might help.

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Accessing_and_Storing_Functions#Tag

[SleepyDeux]

Thank you, I did not see the functions previously.

I tried updating my Tools > Options > Images > Caption to:

• [Title]
• tag(Title)
• tag(exif: Title)

but none of these seem to have had any effect (I waited a few minutes between each test and tried refreshing/navigating away and back to the directory when validating).

EXIFTool shows the following for that file:

& C:\Data\Tools\exiftool.exe $BabyBurrito | select-string "burrito"

XP Title                        : Brandon napping as baby burrito
Title                           : Brandon napping as baby burrito

[dtc]

It was worth a try. Sorry, I don't know much about using EXIF with MC. I just remembered this tag function.