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Detailed installation information can be found here.

Copy the exiftool.exe to your c:\windows folder or to a folder contained in the PATH variable so it is accessible in any directory/folder.

Unzip the exiftool(-k).exe and rename it exiftool.exe.

(For Windows Users) Download the stand-alone Windows Executable from the Exiftool site.

Reading Windows Photo Gallery Metadata using Exiftool It may be daunting for some users to use the Windows Command line so I will try to be as specific as possible. I created this table from plain observation, if you find any other behavior let me know.įor reading and writing to these tags I highly recommend the excellent Exiftool command line utility. The following table lists some of the photo information displayed in Windows Photo Gallery and the corresponding metadata fields from where the information is read and written to. For example, WPG captions information is stored in the XMP:Title, XMP:Description as well in other IPTC and EXIF fields. In some occasions some information may be stored in multiple fields.

I will not delve into the specifics of these standards but it is worth knowing to which fields the information is mapped to. Windows Photo Gallery stores much of this information as photo metadata using standards such as EXIF, IPTC IIM, and XMP (IPTC Core, IPTC Extension, Dublin Core and Microsoft Schemas). Understanding where the metadata is stored Only in some instances this data is not stored to the file itself, such as “Flags” or if the image file in PNG or is set to “read-only”.

So do not fret, as one of the pluses of using Windows Photo Gallery is that most of this information is stored into the image file and is accessible in Windows Explorer as well as any other apps which support photo metadata standards. Unfortunately, the Windows Photos app does not support Captions, Descriptive Tags, People Tags nor GeoTags and to date I have not found any information which points that those features will be supported in the future. The app which is meant to replace Windows Photo Gallery is the Windows Photos App. I have seen various posts and comments on this, particularly after all the time and effort you may have spent tagging photos. With the demise of support to Windows Photo Gallery, it may be a good time to plan an app migration.