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[EpF]

I'm trying to recover some lost image tags (oh how I wish the tags could be saved in the files!! ), but when I use Library Restore, it wipes my Last Played info, which is annoying me.  So I thought I'd cleverly drop the 'field (last played).jmd' file from my most recent backup into the (earlier) backup I wanted to restore from, but MC has outwitted me and somehow maintains the old info...

Anyone know why this happens and if there's anything I can do to resolve my problem?

[marko]

are you certain MC is closed when you copy your file?
I just tried this, comparing the results of this smartlist:

mt=audio ~sort=[last played]-d ~n=10

and they were very different indeed.

[glynor]

oh how I wish the tags could be saved in the files!!

Oh, I am right there with you on that.

[JimH]

Tags are saved in jpg files. 

[glynor]

I meant in a format that other applications can use (eg. Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, InDesign, Portfolio, etc, etc, etc).

Don't get me wrong, I know where the blame lies.

[EpF]

are you certain MC is closed when you copy your file?
I just tried this, comparing the results of this smartlist:

mt=audio ~sort=[last played]-d ~n=10

and they were very different indeed.

Actually, I was dropping the file from one Backup to another.  I guess from your question that you copied the file from the Backup straight into the MC Library folder in Documents and Settings; much cleverer, and it does work, cheers! 

Tags are saved in jpg files.

Jim, any chance of this being extended to TIFs?  That way, at least there would be one format which supported Layers and Lossless compression that MC could tag permanently.. 

[JimH]

We plan to at least look at adding TIFF tag support in the future.  Right now, MC reads them.