exiftool cannot remove Microsoft:Category

[StarGeek]

Version 12.24

I'm testing out what tags Windows will read and ended up with a file that Windows and exiftool can read Microsoft:Category, but exiftool cannot remove the tag with this output

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C:\>exiftool -P -overwrite_original -Microsoft:Category= Y:\!temp\ccc\file.mp4
    0 image files updated
    1 image files unchanged

C:\>exiftool -g1 -a -s -microsoft:Category Y:\!temp\ccc\file.mp4
---- Microsoft ----
Category                        : Microsoft:Category

File is attached.

[StarGeek]

Microsoft:Subtitle exhibits similar behavior in that file.

Also, the Microsoft:Keywords probably need to be looked at.  I had one occurrence where Windows wrote to that tag instead of Microsoft:Category and put values of "tags", "tags 2", and "tags 3" into Microsoft:Keywords instead.  Exiftool only returns "tags" but Windows was reading all three entries.

[Phil Harvey]

Thanks for this report.  I'll look into this and report back here when I get a chance.

- Phil

[Phil Harvey]

This will be fixed in ExifTool 12.25.  It will be a problem for all Microsoft Xtra tags.  The work-around it to make any other change to the file at the same time.

Thanks for this report!

- Phil

[Phil Harvey]

ExifTool 12.25 is now out, and should fix this problem.

- Phil