Elements 12 Strips Metadata from Tiff Files When Saving?!

When I bring a photo into Elements 12 in tiff format from Capture NX2  and edit it, then save it, the metadata gets stripped out. I want the photo to retain the metadata so that Organizer can sort my photos by data and time captured. I've verified that the metadata was present before editing the file in Elements. How can I do this? I've tried both checking and unchecking the "Ignore Camera Data" box in the Saving Files Preferences. Thanks

Jim - of course the original is not retained: the apps are doing a safe save (where you save to a new filename, then replace the original with the duplicate in a semi-atomic way). This is done using standard OS APIs whenever possible, and is done in most applications. All file saves in Photoshop behave the same way, except maybe PDF (which is in some code we don't control) and SaveForWeb (also different code).
Again, the root cause is an Apple bug in the way they chose to associate metadata with the files, and how they updated existing APIs to deal with the additional metadata. We might be able to work around this using new APIs -- but should apps have to change their code every time someone decides to add new metadata invisible to the app and separate from the file? Shouldn't the design of the metadata system be more robust, and work with existing applications? Shouldn't someone have thought about this before releasing a metadata system, that, well, nobody knew about?

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