Two XMP Packets in one document

[wilfo]

I am working with Photoshop (PSD) files. Some of them include more than 1 packet of XMP- data; maybe AdobeBridge simply appends additional XMP-Info instead of updating the existing info.
Extracting the XMP by exiftool -b -xmp file will return the "latest" one which is O.K. for me.
But i am not able to get specific versions of special tags. For instance retrieving all 'ColorMode' - entries by
exiftool -a -S -G -ColorMode file returns:

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[Photoshop] ColorMode : CMYK
[XMP] ColorMode: CMYK
[XMP] ColorMode: RGB
and without -a i get

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[XMP] ColorMode RGB
which is the deprecated one.
Will there be any way to only acces the latest one?
Many, many thanks for this great tool!
Wilfried

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Wilfried,

Could you send me a sample so I can take a look?  (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

- Phil

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Wilfred,

Interesting. The second XMP is embedded in the TIFF information of the PSD.  This is not the normal location for this.  I recommend just ignoring the non-standard XMP by adding -use MWG to your command.  This option will cause EXIF, IPTC and XMP in non-standard locations to be ignored.

- Phil

[wilfo]

Hi Phil,
thats exactly what i needed, and will help in many other situations, too.
I guessed that there is a solution for this, but overlooked it, as often.
Thank you
Wilfried