Description file keyword.bas

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:57 am

I have lots of images with descriptions held in a text file. I wish to add these to images in Photo Explorer 8.5 and note that doing this manually creates a file keyword.bas which holds the information. I've tried re-writing this with the descriptions but it doesn't seem to work. Can anyone advise how to do it?

dfarman · Post by **dfarman** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:35 am

You need to use "exifer" - http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/

edit your text file so that you have a list with the filename, a space & the description (without line breaks in the description) i.e...

picture1.jpg description1
picture2.jpg description2
picture3.jpg description3

rename that file to "descript.ion" & put it in the same folder as the photos.

ensure the photos are not write-protected

In exifer, select the photos & go to "exif/iptc" & "import" & "descript.ion"
select "exif-comment" in the next box.

That will import the text & store it in the photos.

The "keyword.bas" file is only used if the picture file is write-protected or if it's not a exif-jpg

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:16 pm

I did all that ok and endd up with the exif files - however I still can't pick up the descriptions in photo explorer. Is there an import function I haven't found?

dfarman · Post by **dfarman** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:59 pm

No, as far as I can see there isn't a description import option, only an exif export.

I just tried following my instructions again & it really does work.

As a test, try putting a single picture in a folder & following my instructions again.

At the import stage, it's important to select "exif-comment", not "exif-description"

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:09 pm

OK that works ok, what I was after though was to get the description on the list page alongsie the filenames. Using Exif I could only see it on the description bar for each slide at the bottom, plus I ended up with thousands of Exif files as well.

I've solved it using keyword.bas though. My error was in the data layout. I created an excel spreadsheet with all the info and wrote it out in binary format to the file. This picked up all the discriptions in seconds and they are now listed as I wanted them. The benefit is all the description info is in only 1 data file per directory.

Thanks for your help anyway.

praebo1557 · Post by **praebo1557** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:54 pm

Ray I definitely agree with your words.