Plugins and addons: devel.+support (English) • Tags and Comments: creating and using? Especially with JPG photo image files

I wanted to try TAGGING my many photo image jpg files rather than moving them into folders. Discussion in the forum is extensive but discouraging. Nevertheless, I wanted to learn a little more about using file tags and comments within TC. I especially wanted to see how they were handled by Custom Columns (also called Custom Fields)

So as a test I modified an example test.jpg file by adding as many tags and comments as I could.

Then I created a new Custom Columns view just to view my tags and comments. I below list my five experiments with creating and then viewing tabs and comments.

• 1. I created a tag using Right-click, Properties, Details, then Tags ___
  That tag was visible only in Custom Columns using [=shelldetails.Tags]
  It was not visible using [=anytag.Tag]

• 2. I entered a comment using Right-click, Properties, Details, then Comments ___
  That comment was visible only in Custom Columns using [=shelldetails.Comments]

• 3. I entered a comment using File, Change Attributes, Plugin = jpg-comment. Property = JPG Comment Complete.
  That comment was visible only in Custom Columns using [= jpg-comment. JPG Comment Line]

• 4. I entered a comment using File, Change Attributes, Plugin = tc.Property = comment
  That comment was visible only in Custom Columns using [=tc.comment ]

• 5.I entered a comment using ctrl-Z.
  That comment was visible only in Custom Columns using [=tc.comment ]
  This step created a new descript.ion file
  Step 5 overwrote Step 4. When I repeated Step 4, it overwrote Step 5.

I also noticed that [=tc.Tag Present] and [=anytag.Tag] always returned blanks.

There must be a better way. Tags and comments seem clunky to me.

Statistics: Posted by nn1k3 — 2025-03-07, 22:35 UTC

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