Import captions from Olympus Master to PSE8

Just bought Photoshop Elements 8. Imported photos that had been downloadedearlier into Olympus Master (didn't know was only a temporary license). Had spent a bunch of time adding captions, but none of the captions transferred with the photos.
Is there a way to get those captions into PSE8? Don't want to have to redo all the captions!

Hmmm. I've actually asked this question for my husband. Since he already has been quite frustrated with the learning curve for PSE8, I can't even imagine how I'd get him to take on something that isn't even advertised as being user friendly....
Nice to know what the problem is. You mentioned that exiftool has a friendlier cousin. What is that friendlier cousin? and if I wanted to try to use exiftool to do the batch copying, do you have suggestions as to how I would learn how to use it? If I can figure it out, I could do the batch processing for him as an early Father's Day present....

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1. Recently bought a new Olympus VR310 digital camera. I couldn't get either Image Capture (6.0.1) or iPhoto (9.1.5) to import images from day one, onto my Mac Mini running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. However, if I took the SDHC card out of the Olympus and put it into an older Canon Ixus digital camera , and used that to upload, then both Image Capture and iPhoto worked perfectly. So it's not the card. Or the USB connection. It's something special to the Olympus and the Mac. Obviously I tried all the usual stuff about dumping plist files etc. Nothing worked.
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