Windows (Explorer) Comment: is it metadata?

[terrypin]

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[Phil Harvey]

The only trick here is to determine what the tag is called in ExifTool.  Read FAQs 2 and 3 for help here.

Once you know the tag name, the basic command syntax is

exiftool -TAG="VALUE" FILE

or, as a specific example

exiftool -comment="this is a comment" c:\pictures\image.jpg

And I started a new forum thread to explain the basics of running from the command line in Windows.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

Under Windows 8, adding a comment there gets added to the XPComment tag. 

[Tarn]

In XP the tags are added as:
XPTitle
XPComment
XPAuthor
XPKeywords
XPSubject

This, logically, should be the same for later versions (but then... it is Microsoft).

[HaNu]

for GUI   XPComment add
-IFD0:XPComment

[terrypin]

Thanks all. As you see from my reply in https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php/topic,4921.0.html, I missed all three of those replies until now. 

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK