Photoshop doesn't save metadata

I try to write meta data to psd file.
i add resource block (as in photoshop file format.pdf) with custom number (4000 for example).
all data saved and photoshop correctly open file.
but when I click save, all my data disappear and are not saved.
Is there some custom resource block where i can save my custom data?

If I understand, you pushed some metadata in photoshop while loading an image and the data is not there anymore when saving the image.
I see 2 things that can happen:
1) the formatting of the metadata: you must follow exactly the description in
<rootDir>\Adobe Photoshop CS4 SDK\documentation\html\imageresourcessection.html
Be careful to have an even length (need to pad odd name length and binary data) for the string name and for the data itself
2) I am not sure about this but, in my experience, you cant use a custom number 4001 if you haven`t also used 4000 before. This means that you cant use arbitrary custom numbers for the id. They must all be there from 4000 (using 4000 and 4001 is ok, but using only 4001 will fail) . I found this in my tests but I may be wrong with this.
Gilbert

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