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Title: Pictures, add to keywords
Post by: Daydream on June 04, 2011, 09:31:56 pm

Can I add something to my pictures' keywords, automatically, without replacing the current ones? I don't want to click & pick, I wanna point to 3000 pics and say take this part of the filename (path) and add it to the keywords. I may have a brain freeze but I don't see it.

Title: Re: Pictures, add to keywords
Post by: marko on June 05, 2011, 04:38:14 am

Morning Daydream,

Automatically, no. confishy created "AutoTagger (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=51193.0)" that might be able to automate this for you. I'm not sure as I've not used it before.

Recent changes to the way list type fields are handled makes this a little more cumbersome as it would appear that inline expression support is no longer available for list type fields.

The quickest manual way to achieve this that I can see is:

• Locate (or create) an unused, string type, standard field. (I used [Genre] in my tests)
• Select the 3000 files, then, in the tag window, click to edit your standard field. Enter =[keywords];part of filename (path) and press enter to save.
  
• With the 3000 files still selected, use the "Move/Copy Fields" tool to either move or copy the contents of that standard field to [keywords] and the job is then done.

-marko

Title: Re: Pictures, add to keywords
Post by: Daydream on June 05, 2011, 05:12:20 pm

Thanks Marko! Very good idea, I'll put it to heavy use.