Can I export my categories as keywords?
You want to export your categories into hierarchical keywords? Why?
Usually you use the special @Keywords category (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/#cat_keywords.htm) to combine the power of categories and keywords. And you use 'real' categories for organizational purposes and for categories which should not be stored inside the image.
There is a trick to copy categories to hierarchical keywords using Metadata Templates. But this would duplicate your categories under @Keywords...
Quote from: Mario on January 02, 2019, 10:18:21 AM
You want to export your categories into hierarchical keywords? Why?
I want to do a project on a separate system trialling a new photo processor and not, initially, using iMatch.
Check out this FAQ article written by Ferdinand:
How to migrate categories to @Keywords with a metadata template (https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?topic=3428.msg22482#msg22482)
Make a backup copy of your database before.
Try out your category variable in VarToy to make sure you grab only the categories you want etc.
Thank you.
Quote from: Mario on January 02, 2019, 10:18:21 AM
You want to export your categories into hierarchical keywords? Why?
Usually you use the special @Keywords category (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/#cat_keywords.htm) to combine the power of categories and keywords. And you use 'real' categories for organizational purposes and for categories which should not be stored inside the image.
There is a trick to copy categories to hierarchical keywords using Metadata Templates. But this would duplicate your categories under @Keywords...
I've done everything wrong for years.
I've always assigned my images to categories and then written them as keywords in the files.
Thus, the categories were all duplicated.
I should probably think again about that.
IMatch categories existed long before there were hierarchical keywords.
Since IMatch 5 which supported hierarchical keywords and the @Keywords category, keywords should go into keywords, all else into categories.