Help with Exiftool commands to fix Google Photos captions?

[ckpager]

Hello, I am an ExifTool novice, but hoping someone can help!

I've inherited this batch file script, to covert a full folder of picture captions and dates, so that they will all import into Google Photos in filename sequence, and Google Photos will prominently display each picture's caption as "Description:"

exiftool.exe -overwrite_original -all= -tagsFromFile @ -Description .
exiftool.exe -overwrite_original "-file:fileCreateDate+<0:0:$filesequence" .
exiftool.exe -overwrite_original "-CreateDate<file:fileCreateDate" "-ModifyDate<file:fileCreateDate" "-file:fileModifyDate<file:fileCreateDate" "-DateTimeOriginal<file:fileCreateDate" "-MetadataDate<file:fileCreateDate" -P .


This worked great for years, at least 2018-2021.  Now I try it again for the first time in 2022, and the pictures upload to Google in the correct (filename) sequence, but Google Photos NO LONGER SHOWS ANY DESCRIPTION TEXT.  My photo caption is only displayed under the "Other" heading.

I tried this thread without success https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=10161.0

>> Has Google Photos changed sometime this year as to from where they draw the Description?  From this thread, it appears they *should* draw it from XMP-dc:Description, but it looks like my picture caption *is* under that tag, but nonetheless Google Photos is no longer picking it up.

>> Any suggestions how I might change my above batch file script to ensure that the picture captions *are* picked up by Google Photos as a Description?

If it helps, I attached the JPG before and after running the batch script.  The caption should be: "Welcome to Rotterdam (Netherlands, 1-4Sept22 w/ NK)"


Thank you!

[Phil Harvey]

I see you found some help here

- Phil