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Import from catalog and hierarchical keywords

rainerfrey
I want to include one catalog (B) completely into another one (A), as I don't want to keep an extra catalog for the pictures in B. I tried the following ways:

    In (A), select Import => from Catalog file, and select B.ivc
    In (B), select all images and drag them onto the window of A

Images, Catalog Sets, People, Keywords ... are all in A, but not the hierarchical Keywords. Is there a way to import all the hierarchical keyword assignments from B, preferably without syncing annotations to original files?

The images are all JPEG (from a Canon 40D), and I use Expression Media 2 SP2 (B2096) on Mac OS X 10.6.

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Rainer
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  • billseymour
    Rainer-

    I'd be interested to hear if there is a way to do this similar to what you have described.

    I personally would:
    - Sync annotate all the images in Cat B
    - make a copy of the Cat B images (just my "belt and suspenders" self)- I'd use this copy set for the merge with Cat A
    - Open Cat A, and import copy-of-Cat-B set of images into Cat A
    - save Cat A

    Also: do you have a compelling reason for not sync-annotating the Cat B (and Cat A, for that matter) images? To me, sync-annotate is a core part of my DAM workflow, since I think it is essential to have all the metadata saved to the images themselves, in order to preserve portability and to reduce my dependency on any database (catalog).

    --Bill
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  • rainerfrey
    [quote="billseymour" wrote:

    Also: do you have a compelling reason for not sync-annotating the Cat B (and Cat A, for that matter) images?
    --Bill

    Reason yes. Compelling? Well, more or less yes, at least to my own eyes.

    • I don't trust a complex, potentially buggy software like a DAM solution to write to my original images. I like the "never touch the original" approach

    • I don't want to accidently publish my annotations in case I forget to check the metadata before I publish the image to the web
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  • billseymour
    Rainer-

    It is interesting, isn't it, how there are two very different philosophies about the "touching" of images. Both views have a lot of support. Part of my interest in writing to the image is also so that, when I save offline to DVD, I have the metadata preserved even in the offline material. But again, that is just my own strong leaning toward "preserve the meta data at every opportunity".

    I have not had any problems with either iView or IDimager in terms of metadata getting screwed up when writing to the original file. And so far, my re-entry into EM also appears to be going fine in terms of sync-annotations, too.

    Re your second point- yes, I've been concerned about that as well. My own annotations don't have a big "down side" if they are published (ie, nothing that would reflect on my business, and no unflattering annotations about the relatives!), so if something gets published with metadata, I am OK with it.

    However, the more proprietary or confidential one's metadata is, then there is definitely reason to be cautious about information erroneously getting out.

    --Bill
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  • rainerfrey
    For those interested in the original issue: this has been confirmed as a bug (but no commitment if and when it is going to be fixed).
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