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Can no longer export annotations

Morrie Gasser
Suddenly MP is not exporting annotations, something I've done countless times before. The action log simply says "Failed to export annotations" with no further information. I tried relaunching, different catalogs, different files that worked before, unchecking different include boxes in the export dialog, all with no luck. I haven't tried destroying my preference files, which I'm really loathe to do. Is there anything else I can't try?
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  • rmoorlag
    On windows you could try starting the application as administrator (right click)...
    Roelof
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  • Morrie Gasser
    [quote="rmoorlag" wrote:
    On windows you could try starting the application as administrator (right click)...
    Roelof


    Alas, this is a Mac.
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  • H. Cremers
    [quote="MorrieG" wrote:
    ... Is there anything else I can't try?


    Repair permissions in Disk Utility?
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  • Morrie Gasser
    Repairing permissions didn't help. Anyway the file is not on my boot drive and Disk Utility doesn't repair permissions there. Also I was able to use the MP image editor to modify my files just fine, so it's not a permissions problem.

    I tried deleting all the MP-related files I could find in /Library/Preference, /Library/Caches, and reinstalled the application from the latest dmg file. Still, the same behavior.

    Is MP using some service outside the application itself to write the annotations? I tried writing annotations to the same files using two other applications and could import those annotations into MP with no problem.
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  • Morrie Gasser
    Wow, I am stunned. I know for sure the annotations were not written on my first attempt, because I didn't see them in other software that opened the files. That's the whole reason I looked at the activity log in the first place, as I don't normally open that window.

    But just now after the reinstall and all the work I mentioned above, I checked the files again and the annotations are indeed exported! This, despite my continuing to get "Failed to embed annotations" message for every file.

    So I suppose the only bug is that I'm getting the failure messages in the log despite the fact that it is working fine. I guess it's not a big deal, except that now I have to be suspicious because I can't trust the log.
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  • Goldeneyes
    I've also received that message but usually just on a minority of files. Then when I check those files reported in the Action Log I DO see the metadata I care about. I have often wondered what exactly isn't being exported. I suppose I could figure it out with EXIF Tool.
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