File Info Description Copyright Notice text problem

I want to change the Copyright Notice text in File>File Info>Description in a way that is permanent. Back in 2009 I set the text to say "Copyright 2009" and now I want it to say Copyright 2011. Changing the text works for the current image but the next image I open, it reverts to 2009. How do I fix this?

that there are DEFAULT values for both Photographer and Copyright Notice that are loaded (from SOMEWHERE) every time I launch Photoshop.
Sounds like you may already have a Script to add the © notice.
Yes, I did misunderstand the need.
Good luck, and I see that you are suffering from a "split-personality." Post with both I.D.s to the Forum Comments forum, and Adobe-Admin will help you straighten things out. Note: Adobe is on Summer holiday, until July 10, so John might not be working, until then.
Hunt

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After switching to CS3 for Mac, on a new MacBook running 10.4.11, I have been experiencing a maddening phenomenon when captioning photos.
When I write a caption for a photo that contains very similar information to a previous photo, when in the "Description" field of "File Info," I like to click on the triangle next to the field and import the information, thus saving many key strokes.
But in CS3, unlike CS, whenever there is a comma in the caption, it stops copying the information at the placement of the comma. So, in one of my typical run-on sentences, I have to import and paste several times if there is a comma anywhere in the sentence. That last sentence, for example, would have needed to be imported to the description field in three chunks.
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Help, please!

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My new computer has Yosemite 10.10.3 and I'm happy to say Elements 6 works with it. But when I wanted information about a picture something happened that does not seem right.
I opened the picture and went to File / File Info. A window opened that asked for information about the picture. The problem is that as soon as I clicked anywhere int he File Info window it froze. Nothing happened. Everything else seemed to continue working but when I clicked on the picture behind the file Info window, it did not come to the front. I had to close photoshop to get rid of the file info window. Is this problem common or perhaps I'm doing something wrong?
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Hello A
Have you tried creating a new account and see how your apps work in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.)
Open System Preferences > Accounts > "+" make it an admin account.
If this works, then log back into your problem account and navigate to ~(yourHome)/Library/Preferences and trash these two files:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Then log out and back in again. Or restart.
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Let us know.
-mj
[email protected]

File Info Dialog problem

Hi,
Not sure if this is a bug or if I'm just missing a setting someplace.
Problem: I write a lengthy caption in the "Description" window of the File Info dialog. Later on I want to use that same caption on a different image.
Using CS3 on Windows I can click on the flyout arrow next to the "Description" window and input the entire caption.
Using CS3 on Mac, the flyout will only input sections of the caption. It seems like the Mac version breaks the caption apart based on any punctuation that is in the caption.
Ex. If my caption is "01 July 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA - Paul has issues with Photoshop, causing a problem when captioning files."
Windows puts the entire caption in the field. Mac breaks it down like this:
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Los Angeles
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Paul has issues with Photoshop
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The idea to try this dawned on me when I noticed that in some places in the metadata pane, decimal numbers are displayed with a comma (respecting the decimal separator character given in strings.txt); in other places, they're displayed with a decimal point (ignoring strings.txt). Those using a dot are correct; those using a comma are wrong. So there's two bugs in Bridge rather than just one. First bug: In some places, the language-specific decimal separator character is ignored. Second bug: When it is not ignored then the number displayed will be wrong.
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Problems with Custom File Info Panel and Dublin Core

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The documentation really sucks.
I found this reply from Adobe <http://forums.adobe.com/message/2540890#2540890>
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WINDOWS VISTA: C\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\XMP\Custom File Info Panels\2.0\panels\
MAC OS: /user/username/Application Data/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels/2.0/panels/
The reason why your panels did not work properly was a missing Flash trust file for that user location. Without such a trust file the embedded flash player refuses to "play" your custom panel.
Please see section "Trust files for custom panels" in the XMPFileInfo SDK Programmer's Guide on page 50 for all details on how to create such trust files.
After many wasted hours I have now the simple panels running.
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Problems with File Info Option

I've been getting completely frustrated adding specific information under the "description" table listed under File>File Info option in Bridge CS4.
Everything is greyed out and I cannot add information. I have to go through each of the 100s of images to find out that some of the images will not allow information added even though they were all taken with the same freaking camera.
Please help!!!!! I have 1000s of images and cannot go through each one to add copyright information etc...the files are not locked when I look under the finder option.
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Thx!!!! It worked!!!!
Daniel K. Lee
Commercial Photographer
tel: 415.225.3289
email: [email protected]
www.DKLImages.com
2009/6/14 Ramón G Castañeda <[email protected]>
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As was the case with CS2, when in bridge adding file info. to multiple files, the data entered within Copyright Notice, Copyright Status and Copyright Info URL is shown as entered and correct when checking back the file info. within Bridge - However, if one of those files is then opened in Photoshop and the file info. is checked, the data entered is either incomplete or simply not being shown.
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2) Bridge - Checking file info.
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i) Having chosen Copyrighted as the option within Copyright Status, now appears untouched and defaults to Unknown!!
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see here:
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How do you go back to IPTC/description, ect in file info

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I am in this view of file info and need to go back to the very first view, IPTC, description, ect, current view shows GPS data, video data.
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