How handle Persons image field

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caruso
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How handle Persons image field

Post by caruso »

Hi everyone,
In Windows Explorer, enabling the column Persons i read a set of value (already set in the past).

I tried to edit those values whith XnView, using both IPTX and XMP medadata editor but it seems that the field Persons is not mapped in the software,

I'm sure that I mistaking something but I'm not understanding what.

How can I do to handle Person fields ?

Thank you in advance for your helps!

Caruso
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Re: How handle Persons image field

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Are you using XnView Classic, the forum heading under which you have posted, or the newer and now recommended XnView MP?
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Re: How handle Persons image field

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https://community.adobe.com/questions-675/writing-metadata-to-a-file-971080 wrote:People column shows a Microsoft-proprietary field that was written by old versions of Microsoft Photos apps (Live Photos, Photos, or whatever the marketers were calling it that year) that supported people recognition. The current version of Microsoft Photos doesn't do people recognition, and Microsoft hasn't updated File Explorer to show the industry-standard field.

If you're really determined, you could use the free Exiftool utility to copy the people names written by LR in the industry-standard field to the Microsoft-proprietary field.