PL5 Adds Legacy (i.e., obsolete) IPTC Metadata

[BHAYT (Bryan [WIN10, PL8, VP4, FP7, G9 & EM1 Mkii, RTX 3060])]

@jch2103

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My bigger point, which may have gotten lost in all the words, is that PL5 needs a user option to skip DxO’s DAM and simply replicate PL4’s handling of metadata, i.e., pass it through unchanged from the raw file to the output files. As I said earlier, I’m fine with DxO’s efforts to implement some level of DAM for its users, as long as it doesn’t interfere with people who want to manage metadata on their own. Agree?

I understand your requests for a “straight” pass through of metadata except for the fact that in my post PL 5 Keywords Handling: Output Files - #9 by BHAYT I raise the issue that I cannot replicate your evidence in the tests I did earlier today.

I just cleared the IMatch database and reran the addition of keywords to a RAW photo and this time I got yet another variant on possible combinations, i.e.

Added another RAW and assigned the keywords in IMatch but with the ‘Write path elements’ set and got what I expected. Putting both through PL5.1.3 did not produce any extraneous keywords in the ‘hr’ group.

In the test that I did where I stated that I was confused, IMatch inserted the additional keys automatically, I did not enter any flat keys but IMatch did seem to be “second guessing” me as I entered the keywords!?