Vlad, You're just a few AppleScript lines away from solving your project.
The problem is that Finder's dictionary does *not* provide access to "modern" tags. So we have to code that with AS but we don't have to reinvent the wheel since Shane Stanley has already written *the* code that you can use to manipulate tags in AS. I am not sure the link points at the canonical version, but that's the one I use for reference: https://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2015/Jan/msg00193.html Jean-Christophe > On Mar 14, 2020, at 23:44, Vlad Ghitulescu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey! > > What I've got so far: > > • I manage to extract the IPTC-keywords from the initial example: > > <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="XMP Core 5.6.0"> > <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";> > <rdf:Description rdf:about="" > xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; > xmlns:photoshop="http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/"; > xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/"; > xmlns:photomechanic="http://ns.camerabits.com/photomechanic/1.0/"; > photoshop:DateCreated="2018-05-10T13:35:00.03" > xmp:CreateDate="2018-05-10T13:35:00.03" > xmp:Rating="0" > photomechanic:ColorClass="0" > photomechanic:Tagged="False" > photomechanic:Prefs="0:0:0:-00001" > photomechanic:PMVersion="PM6"> > <dc:subject> > <rdf:Bag> > <rdf:li>Ben</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>Mina</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>Tom</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>Vlad</rdf:li> > </rdf:Bag> > </dc:subject> > </rdf:Description> > </rdf:RDF> > </x:xmpmeta> > > using BBEdit's "Process Line Containing…"-command, where I searched for > > <rdf:li> > > • I replaced (manually, not via a script etc.) then > • first > > <rdf:li> > > • and then > > </rdf:li> > > with nothing. > > The result: > > Ben > Mina > Tom > Vlad > > are the 4 IPTC-Keywords that I want to set as Finder-tags to the CR2 / JPG / > TIFF - file with the same name as the XMP-file. > > • I've found an Automator-action that can assign tags to files or > folders. > <Bildschirmfoto 2020-03-14 um 15.39.50.png> > > These are only a couple of pieces of the whole puzzle and right now I don't > have a clue how to "glue" them together :-( > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > Vlad > > On 13 Mar 2020, at 13:44, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote: > > I was inexact regarding file-names and -number: > > • the XMP-file and the photo-file have the same name AND > • there is most of the time more than one photo-file, because I shoot > in RAW (that’s CR2 for me, shooting Canon) and all of the edited versions are > JPG, once in a while TIFF. > So for a given photo „PhotoName“ I have always at least two files > > PhotoName.CR2 (the RAW-file) > PhotoName.XMP (the metadata-file, I was hard-working enough to take care of > the metadata ;-) > > and for the most of the photos there are even some other edited versions as > > PhotoName.JPG > PhotoName-1.JPG > PhotoName-bw.JPG > PhotoName.TIFF > > The edited versions all begin with A but can have a) some data added to the > end of the file-name (as digits for various versions or -bw for black & > white) and b) some other file-extensions (JPG and once in while TIFF). > > That make my dream-script a little more complicated: > > • take this photo-folder; > • read from the first XMP-file the IPTC-keywords; > • copy all of this IPTC-keywords as Finder-tags to all of the files > with the suffixes CR2, JPG or TIFF of which the file-name begins with the > same name as the XMP-file; > • loop within the photo-folder until there is no XMP-file anymore. > I hope that now is more clearer. > > Thanks in advance! > > Regards, > Vlad > > On 13 Mar 2020, at 8:18, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote: > > Hey! > > This is a BBEdit-question, but I first need to give a little background to > it. :-) > > As all photographers here already know, the metadata to the photos lives in a > suplimentary XMP-file. > Here is a sample of a XMP-file for one of my photos, where I filled in the so > called IPTC-keywords in Photo Mechanic: > > <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="XMP Core 5.6.0"> > <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";> > <rdf:Description rdf:about="" > xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; > xmlns:photoshop="http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/"; > xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/"; > xmlns:photomechanic="http://ns.camerabits.com/photomechanic/1.0/"; > photoshop:DateCreated="2018-05-10T13:35:00.03" > xmp:CreateDate="2018-05-10T13:35:00.03" > xmp:Rating="0" > photomechanic:ColorClass="0" > photomechanic:Tagged="False" > photomechanic:Prefs="0:0:0:-00001" > photomechanic:PMVersion="PM6"> > <dc:subject> > <rdf:Bag> > <rdf:li>Ben</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>Mina</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>Tom</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>Vlad</rdf:li> > </rdf:Bag> > </dc:subject> > </rdf:Description> > </rdf:RDF> > </x:xmpmeta> > > The individual data is the creation-date: > > photoshop:DateCreated="2018-05-10T13:35:00.03" > xmp:CreateDate="2018-05-10T13:35:00.03" > > and the IPTC-keywords: > > <rdf:li>Ben</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>Mina</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>Tom</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>Vlad</rdf:li> > > Another background-information that probably all of you know: there is no > relation between the IPTC / XMP - keywords and the Finder / macOS - tags. > > And this exactly is my problem. > > I need to input somehow / somewhere the metadata to my photos, but I don't > want to make this twice in order to have this information present in the > IPTC-keywords AND in the Finder-tags as well. > > This is not new at all: Google-ing about "copy IPTC-keywords into > Finder-tags" or viceversa I've found a lot but all of it involved in one step > or another the EXIFtool, a command line utility that reads and writes > photo-metadata… and this doesn't scale very well (I have A LOT of photos: > about 220,000 pics that are more than 2 TB big!) and it is slow, because the > EXIFtool have to read the metadata from the photo. > > So my idea is to take care or the IPTC-keywords in Photo Mechanic (this would > create a XMP-file as the one above for every photo I have) and then - and > here comes BBEdit! :-) - somehow transfer the data from the XMP-file (that is > in the end only a text-file!) to the Finder-tags. > > Now finally to my question (sorry for the length!): How could I > > • take each IPTC-keyword (delimited by the tag < rdf:li >, see above) > and > • write this IPTC-keyword into a Finder-tag > for every photo in a folder? > > Ideally I'd have a script, point it to a folder full of photos and BOOM!, > after this every photo would have the same Finder-tags as the IPTC-keywords! > > Could you please help me with this? > > Thanks in advance! > > Regards, > Vlad > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. 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