Writing tags to actual file- any disadvatage to doing this?

I have PSE 6,
I see I can actual write the tags to the image file, any reason not to do this, can this be done automatically or do you have to manual do each time ?
thnaks
Mike

You have to give the command File > Write Keyword Tag every time. There are no disadvantages to doing this, other than that the command is buggy. Having the tags (and date/time, captions, notes, star rating, and map locations) written to the file's metadata makes it easier to share this information with other programs and provides a partial fall back if your catalog gets corrupted and you don't have adequate backups.
For a list of the problems with Write Keyword Tags, see the last paragraph of the section "Writing File Metadata" in this page:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/#_Writing_File_Metadata

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