Encore: Which description field should be editable?

[cytochrome]

Mario,

Yesterday I posted a question in the thread started by Ferdinand (https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?topic=2380.msg17263#msg17263).  In response you asked

There should be only one xmp:dc\Description tag in your database. Did you run a diagnosis to fix this?

I run several DB diagnostics, they all end with Errors:0 , Warnings:0. The DB is
Database file size on disk:   2.75 GB
    Number of folders:            1 244
    Number of files:              56 049
    Number of categories:         8 846

It is the same DB since several month, I always installed new IM5 betas, then IM51.. on top, without problem  or complains.

AT present I have these tags
{File.MD.XMP::xmp\Description\Description\0}  ======> This one is empty
{File.MD.XMP::dc\description\Description\0} ========> These two are populated
{File.MD.Composite\Description\Description\0} ======> and synchronized

My question was is not {File.MD.XMP::xmp\Description\Description\0} the "official" Description tag? Should I "push" the data to this tag?

(this is with exiftool 9.65)

Francis

[Mario]

The diagnosis should detect the duplicate tag and fold it. Very strange. Anyway, this can never happen again.
You can contact me via email. I will send you a tool which allows to look into your database and to fix this manually.

[cytochrome]

Thank you Mario.

I send you an email. I suppose it is the same tool used by John Zeman in an other post about Description.. I could simply delete one of the XMP Description tags but I fear I a loss of data.

When I installed Exiftool v9.65 yesterday, after IMatch detected it and DB diagnotic (don't konow if it plays a role) , {File.MD.XMP::dc\description\Description\0} and {File.MD.Composite\Description\Description\0} became immediately synchronized. I checked it over the whole DB (samples from the Timeline) it is fine for NEF, MRW, RW2 and JPGs

Francis