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Hi, I am trying to extract <photoshop:Category> metadata from the a TIF file (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HWuPHzsRlxdNDSGcK8skcMtWzPkVy0V0/view)
and I am finding the metadata getting truncated with following command

ExifTool : 10.67 (windows)

Command : exiftool -tagsfromfile 20140257_6918.tif output.xmp

Result :  <photoshop:Category>Pro</photoshop:Category>

But when I use the command

Command : exiftool -tagsfromfile 20140257_6918.tif -all:all output.xmp

Result : <photoshop:Category>Professional</photoshop:Category>

I am little confused on why this is happening and whats the exact difference in commands.
Please do let me know how to fix this issue.

Thanks.

You have two Category tags in that file.  The IPTC:Catergory is the source of "Pro" and the XMP:Category has "Professional".

The IPTC:Catergory has priority between the two.  In the case of your first command, tags "from the source file are copied to same-named tags in the preferred location of the output file" (first paragraph of the docs on TagsFromFile (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#tagsFromFile-SRCFILE-or-FMT)).  Since an .xmp file only has XMP tags, it's copied to XMP:Category.

Copying -all:all on the other hand, copies tags to the same location in the target file (see second paragraph under TagsFromFile).  If the source file didn't have the XMP:Category tag, then output.xmp would not have contained a Category tag.

As for a fix, maybe try -XMP:All.  If that's missing some data you needed from the EXIF or IPTC groups, then you'll have to take a look at your data to see what else you need to copy.  Or take a look at the IPTC2XMP.args and EXIF2XMP.args files to fill out your XMP data first.