Cannot copy to IPTC Location tags

[pybely]

Hi
With Windows Photo Gallery (WLPG) being discontinued, I am migrating to Adobe Lightroom (LR).  I successfully imported Face tags to LR (using exiftool), but I have a problem with IPTC Country/State/City tags.  Many of my pictures (scanned negatives or early digital) have no IPTC Location tags, but were "geotagged" using the Microsoft database (Bing) creating "Location Created City/State/Country tags".  I would like to copy these data into the IPTC City/State/Country tags

I first created the IPTC tags with no content (I also tried with an arbitrary name) then used:

                        exiftool "-iptc:City<-XMP-iptcExt:LocationCreatedCity" test.jpg

and get the following answer:

                    Warning: No writable tags set from test.jpg
                    0 image files updated
                    1 image files unchanged

Even though the IPTC tag has been created as I can check it in the metadata file).

Thanks in advance for any help...

[StarGeek]

Are you sure that LocationCreatedCity exists?  According to the output, it doesn't.  Did you check to see if xmp:city exists, as that is the more common tag?

Try using this command to see what city tags might be in the file.:
exiftool -G1 -a -s -*city*

[pybely]

Yes, both  IPTC:City  and XMP:LocationCreatedCity exist -- See attached output

But not XMP:City

Could it be a Microsoft idiosyncrasy ? 

[StarGeek]

Ah, I didn't look at your command carefully enough.  Common mistake 5a, leading dash before the source tag.

Try this:
exiftool "-iptc:City<XMP-iptcExt:LocationCreatedCity" test.jpg

[pybely]

Hi

Unfortunately this is not the answer (not being too knowledgeable on exiftool syntax, I had already tried it).  I still get the same error: No writable tags set.

I ran a series of test using various files (scanned negatives, legitimate digital, geotagged with GeoSetter, geotagged with Microsoft WLPG), and I am unable to make this "same file tag to tag copy" to work. And this is true, even though I can manually write any value I want in -City (eg. -city=Tambuctou), and it will be accepted.

Attached is one of my test file (image reduced to reduce file size), which has the original Created City by WLPG, and an IPTC:City tag that I created with the command: -City= . 

Thanks for your help !

[StarGeek]

Hmmm...  What version of exiftool? 

This test image you posted doesn't copy tags for you?  Because it worked fine for me (ver 10.45).

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C:\>exiftool -city -LocationCreatedCity "X:\!temp\test6.jpg" -a -s -G1
[IPTC]          City                            :
[XMP-iptcExt]   LocationCreatedCity             : Como

C:\>exiftool "-iptc:city<xmp-iptcext:LocationCreatedCity" "X:\!temp\test6.jpg"
    1 image files updated

C:\>exiftool -city -LocationCreatedCity "X:\!temp\test6.jpg" -a -s -G1
[IPTC]          City                            : Como
[XMP-iptcExt]   LocationCreatedCity             : Como

How about copying to xmp:city?  Since you mentioned moving to LR, I'm pretty sure that LR will read xmp:city.

I'm not sure what else to say, I can't replicate the problem

[pybely]

Hi again

My apologies...

I had the current version of exiftool in my Geosetter folder, but a very very old version  in my default path. 

Using the latest version fixed everything!

Thanks so much for your help. 

[StarGeek]

Heh, I've done that.  It's frustrating until you finally figure it out.

[pybely]

Hi again

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