Tag to IPTC in PSE 8

I have stored the PSE Tags as IPTC Data in my Files. After that, I deleted a Tag an wrote to IPTC again. But nothinng happens. The deleted Tag is still in IPTC. Seems PSE did not override? What I am doing wrong (sorry for my english).

No, you didn't do anything wrong. That is one of the limitations of using the PSE command. You can use John Ellis's excellent psedbtool:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/

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    I've been using PSE since V2 and recently upgraded from PSE 11 to PSE 13. While PSE is solid and has some nice new features, it's apparent after some use that my hopes that manual face tagging would be greatly improved were not realized.  I take some responsibility for this as I've grumbled about the unnecessary steps and lack of features in this area and have been silent.  So, I have some suggestions which would be really, really nice to see in an update to the Photoshop Elements Organizer.
    The thrust of this posting is to improve manual tagging of pictures:  Steps one does to augment tagging after "Add People" and "Add Places" has been used.
    Please let me know what you think of this list and I'll submit a revised version as a development suggestion.  Which ideas are good?  workable?  Which ones are half baked?  Have I missed features that already exist so these suggestions are unnecessary?
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    When tagging a set of pictures it is highly likely to reuse tags across many pictures.
    If the tags are from many areas in the tag group structure it requires opening and closing parts of the group tree to access the tags.  This is arduous if one has a large number of tags.
    Recommend providing a "Recently Used Tags" in the list of tag sections below Keywords, People, Places, and Events.
    Recently used tags should provide a lot of tags in Most Recently Used order - 100 at a minimum.  Tagging weddings and other group events involve using a lot of tags.
    Recently used tags should include all types of tags - people, places, events, etc.
    This approach would be beneficial when PSE fails to find faces as well as when non-face tags need to be applied to pictures.
    Favorite tags:
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    Allow tags to be assigned to favorites by selecting a tag and right click "Add to Favorites".
    Allow tags in Favorites to be reordered by dragging up and down in the list.
    Allow tags to be removed from Favorites by selecting the tag with right click "Remove from Favorites".
    Adding face tags for faces that were not found (no box on the face) requires way too many steps for a picture selected in the organizer (seven steps).  Today one must:
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    Click in name area below rectangle.
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    Select name from list.  When name is selected it is confirmed - no green check to confirm selected name.  In the unlikely event one incorrectly selects a name it can always be corrected or the face box removed.
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    This approach requires one or two steps per tag unless the tag needs to be located in the tag strucure.
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    When clicking on a blank name for an empty face tag PSE provides a list of names that is barely wide enough for 3 names.  A larger list of suggested names should be provided - it could extend beyond the entry area for the name and below it.  If face recognition does find a good match PSE should include in the list any people tags which are assigned to the photo but have not been tagged to a face.  Anyone having used PSE for a long period of time likely has many pictures which are tagged with people but are not face tagged.  This approach would reduce the effort in selecting a person.
    Sometimes a lot of non-faces are detected in a picture.  Removing these boxes requires separate clicks on each box's 'X'.   Suggest a context menu on the photo, 'Remove unused face tags' to clear them' in one step.
    I'd appreciate all ideas and suggestions.  In advance, thanks!

    You should see it bottom left of Organizer.

  • Missing Tags in upgrade from PSE 10 to PSE 11

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    Thanks, the solution was simply to select from View, "show people in tag panel".
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  • Suite "Comment transférer mes données IPTC DE PSE 4 à PSE 12?"

    A l'attention de MICHELB/PARIS avec lequel j'avais entamé ce fil de discussion entre le 22 et le 25/10/2013 :
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    Je reviens vers vous suite à nos échanges du 22 au 25 octobre 2013, car, après de longues hésitations, j'ai décidé de tenter la procédure que vous m'aviez conseillée. En effet, je n'avais guère d'espoir de retrouver mes données IPTC sur mon ordinateur i-Mac car je craignais même de les perdre sur mon PC en convertissant  mon catalogue créé avec la version PSE 4 pour qu'il soit compatible avec la version actuelle PSE 12.
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    Dans chacun des 2 cas, le produit n'occupait que 1,628 Go.
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    Troisième échec du même type avec la seule différence que le produit occupait cette fois 2,2 Go. Mais peut-être parce que la version d'évaluation nécessitait plus de mémoire que l'installation à partir du DVD en direct?
    Toujours est-il que l'arrêt s'était produit à la même étape (où cela semblait patiner…) et que le code d'erreur était identique.
    4. Conclusion: je n'ai même pas pu franchir la première étape que vous me préconisiez (votre mail du 22/10/13) pour essayer de résoudre mon problème, c'est-à-dire l'installation de PSE 12 sur mon ancien PC qui renfermait bien sûr toujours ma version PSE 4.
    Je ne sais donc plus quoi faire. Pour réfléchir encore, je n'ai pas désinstallé la version d'évaluation. Mais celle-ci va de toutes façons être obsolète dans peu de temps (sans doute entre le 20 et le 24/ 12.)
    C'est la raison pour laquelle je vous contacte aujourd'hui… en désespoir de cause.
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    Mais j'avoue que je suis tellement déçue -et le mot est faible- d'avoir perdu toutes ces données sur 11000 photos que je ne suis plus d'attaque à écrire des commentaires pour mes nouvelles photos.
    Ce qui revient aussi à constater que j'ai fait l'achat de PSE 12 pour rien car mon objectif essentiel n'était pas d'utiliser l'Editeur , mais de récupérer mes données personnelles. Les autres logiciels, i-Photo en particulier, étaient, à mon niveau, amplement suffisants pour réaliser des retouches de base.
    * Avant l'achat, j'avais pourtant essayé de me renseigner à la FNAC (où je l'ai acheté), à l'APPLE STORE, auprès de particuliers… à propos de cette conservation de mes données IPTC. Ne sachant quoi me répondre, ils m'ont tous conseillée de contactez ADOBE. Je l'ai fait par mail. En vain. Pas de réponse.
    Après avoir acheté le produit et m'apercevant  que le problème était bien là, j'ai également téléphoné à Adobe, et je n'ai eu aucun secours. Il m'a été répondu qu'Adobe ne garantissait pas cette conservation de données personnelles! Et que seuls les ingénieurs d'Adobe "en Amérique" seraient susceptibles de m'aider!! Consternant...
    J'ajoute de plus que le fait de ne pouvoir installer PSE 12 sur mon PC à configuration adéquate ( à tous points de vue) grâce au DVD fourni dans le coffret est une autre preuve du dysfonctionnement de ce logiciel.
    Je demande donc à Adobe, à défaut de ne pouvoir assurer le fonctionnement de son logiciel, d'assumer sa responsabilité à cet égard et de faire jouer sa garantie."
    En revanche, si vous n'êtes pas en mesure de transmettre ce message, pouvez-vous m'indiquer comment je pourrais le faire moi-même efficacement?
    Avec tous mes remerciements pour votre aide , je vous prie d'accepter mes cordiales salutations.
                                martagon.

    Après mon dernier message, je n'ai pas eu de vos nouvelles.
    Je suis un utilisateur comme vous, sans aucun lien ni contact avec Adobe ; c'est le cas des autres utilisateurs avancés qui répondent aux questions sur ce forum. Il arrive que des employés d'Adobe interviennent ici, c'est clairement indiqué sous leur icone personnelle.
    Je dois insister sur le fait que des questions sur des problèmes précis et sur des versions logicielles récentes ont plus de chances de trouver une solution qu'une situation comme la vôtre, avec un logiciel très ancien, une migration entre systèmes d'exploitation, des problèmes d'installation (l'erreur 16)... et la nécessité d'expliquer comment fonctinnent les catalogues et les données IPTC. Ne serait-ce que sur un problème précis, comme l'erreur 16, ces autres utilisateurs avancés ou les employés d'Adobe essaieront de vous répondre en utilisant un traducteur en ligne comme Google.
    Ainsi, l'erreur 16 fait-elle l'objet d'une note technique de la part d'Adobe:
    http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/configuration-error-cs5.html
    C'est un cas que je n'ai jamais rencontré moi-même, je serai donc prudent à ce sujet... Notez de plus que je ne connais rien aux Macs.
    Mon sentiment personnel est que vous n'avez aucune chance de trouver une solution de bout en bout à votre problème auprès d'Adobe ni d'Apple. Il reste donc à résoudre d'abord le problème d'installation de PSE12 sur les deux ordinateurs. A défaut, dans PSE4, veillez à utiliser l'option d'écrire les 'informations d'étiquettes et de propriétés' dans les fichiers (menu fichier). Les données IPTC comme les étiquettes ou mot-clés que vous avez assignés aux photos seront accessibles à tout autre programme externe : l'explorateur Windows ou le FInder Mac par exemple. Pour leur récupération dans des catalogues d'Elements, il faut bien sûr résoudre le problème d'installation de PSE12 en premier. A partir de là on peut reprendre la procédure recommandée dans la note que j'ai citée et traduite.

  • Exclude photos with certain catagory or tag from search in PSE 7?

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  • Exporting Categories and Tag Associations to New PSE Installations

    Hi,
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  • How to maintain tags when upgrading from PSE 5 to PSE 12?

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  • PSE 11 Mac will not quit

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