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i can not find this new feature? is it working

I then created a new parent and subcategory selected a few photographs , did exactly the same steps as before but only the parent gets written to the files and no subcategories..
you means if you have 'automatic apply parent keywords' setting?


yes I have tried with that selected and unselected ...

yes I have found the best way to hope the categories are applied is to select a few photographs, then click in blank space so the keywords can be applied..
If they do not get applied I try selecting and unselecting but they can not be written..

I just did some more testing got excited because quite ...

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knightdj wrote: I can not apply the categories to keywords/xmp subject to lots of jpgs ,

When you click on a categorie, nothing is written in XMP metadata?

no when I tick a category nothing seems to happen to the xmp or iptc, I have tried a number of programs including exiftool to confirm this ?

Hi Pierre

I have no idea why,

I can not apply the categories to keywords/xmp subject to lots of jpgs ,

mostly I can rely on it just adding the main keyword and nothing from the sub categories.

thanks

I did notice that when I briefly re enabled "import XMP subject or IPTC keywords to DB categories" things seemed to be working,, but I removed a few categories that got imported and then decided to disable to importing of xmp/ keywords adn things seemed strange again..

i need to do some more ...

Hi , thanks for the reply,,
yes .jpg jpeg files

I am almost constantly getting this bug, I can get the option "automatically apply parent keywords" to always work

but with the option "export DB Category to XMP subject and IPTC keyword" I get intermitant results for sub categories, sometimes they are applied to keywords other times not?

this ...