Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Jan Erik Moström]

On 16 Mar 2020, at 13:57, Jan Erik Moström wrote:


On 16 Mar 2020, at 7:50, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:


I couldn't get to any IPTC-metadata through Spotlight:


This is something where you should use a tool like 
https://exiftool.org


And if you want some kind of DAM tool then I would suggest looking at 
for example


- Lightroom
- Capture One
- DxO PhotoLab
- Lyn
- OnOne (don't know anything about this)
- Darktable (don't know anything about this)

It all depends what kind of requirements you have.

= jem

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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Jan Erik Moström]

On 16 Mar 2020, at 7:50, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:

> I couldn't get to any IPTC-metadata through Spotlight:

This is something where you should use a tool like https://exiftool.org

= jem

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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

Hi, Scott!


Yes, it looks like I'm out of luck! ;-)

Thanks anyway!


Regards,
Vlad




On 15 Mar 2020, at 17:31, Scott in Pollock wrote:

It may be possible, but I have yet to get it to work with AppleScript 
in
Hi-C Error, despite trying some supposedly working examples on the 
web.
This is not surprising as the examples are pretty old (from back when 
tags

started in Mavericks), and Apple has a history of breaking AppleScript
stuff and never getting around to fixing it.

You should be able to use xattr from the command line, but it requires 
the
tag strings to be input as a pList. So one must first query the 
current
tags, massage that data into XML, and then add the tags to be added, 
and

input that pList back to the xattr command.

There appears to be a command line tool named 'tag' that simplifies 
this
process greatly, but I have yet to find a compiled binary of it. You 
either

need to have MacPorts or Homebrew set up to install it, or have Xcode
installed so you can build it yourself (none of which I have here 
ATM).


On Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 6:48:46 AM UTC-7, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:


I would like to have the Finder-tags assigned to my photos as well, 
if

it's possible.




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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Scott in Pollock]

It may be possible, but I have yet to get it to work with AppleScript in 
Hi-C Error, despite trying some supposedly working examples on the web. 
This is not surprising as the examples are pretty old (from back when tags 
started in Mavericks), and Apple has a history of breaking AppleScript 
stuff and never getting around to fixing it.

You should be able to use xattr from the command line, but it requires the 
tag strings to be input as a pList. So one must first query the current 
tags, massage that data into XML, and then add the tags to be added, and 
input that pList back to the xattr command.

There appears to be a command line tool named 'tag' that simplifies this 
process greatly, but I have yet to find a compiled binary of it. You either 
need to have MacPorts or Homebrew set up to install it, or have Xcode 
installed so you can build it yourself (none of which I have here ATM).

On Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 6:48:46 AM UTC-7, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
>
> I would like to have the Finder-tags assigned to my photos as well, if 
> it's possible.
>
>

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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

['Jeffrey Jones' via BBEdit Talk]

Vlad,

I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish. Why do you want to use 
Finder Tags when photo files already have a standard tagging system, IPTC, 
built in? JPEG, TIFF, PNG, HEIF all contain IPTC in the file. (I don't know 
about Canon, but Nikon raw files also contain IPTC.) There is no reason at any 
point to resort to sidecar files -- the IPTC is in the photo files themselves.

The IPTC data is accessible in Spotlight. For photos, I don't see any advantage 
for using Finder Tags instead of IPTC. IPTC data is carried across different 
software, file formats, computer platforms. Finder Tags work only in the Finder.

I migrated from Aperture to Capture One Pro. (It is a little more expensive 
than some of the other DAM options, but they have a 30-day free trial.) I chose 
it because it did a superb job of importing my Aperture library. All metadata 
is carried over, as well as organization -- projects, albums, labels, ratings. 
Even some (but not all) adjustments.

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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

Scott,


Thank you for your reply!

First the very short answers:

- I did bought a proper cataloging tool (and would probably buy another 
one soon :-)
- none of the Digital Assets Managements - tool I tested can copy 
IPTC-keywords into Finder-tags.


Now with more details: Just last week I finished exporting my masters 
and their edited copies from Aperture.
Aperture had a "*proper cataloging*" and it managed exceptionally IPTC- 
and EXIF-metadata. But Apple abandoned Aperture many years ago (and 
Aperture cannot run under Catalina - that's the single reason I'm still 
on Mojave right now) and here I am with all my painfully completed 
Aperture-keywords lost!


So I decided to never use a proprietary system for search & find photos 
again.


Meanwhile the XMP-files are the standard to go, so I tested last week:

- Photo Mechanic 6
- Photo Supreme
- Graphic Converter
- NeoFinder
- Lyn
- Darktable
- Emulsion

In the end I've got Photo Mechanic (it's by far the fastest when culling 
and can assign metadata on import) and I'm still testing Neo Finder.


But not a single DAM software I tested is able to copy the IPTC-keywords 
into Finder-tags - and I asked directly NeoFinder's Norbert Dörner and 
talked with Photo Mechanic's support about it as well.


This is what I try to solve with a script - in order to be able to 
filter (within a DAM **AND / OR** in the Finder or anything else that 
uses Spotlight, like HoudahSpot, what I very much prefer) my photos by 
the Finder-tags.


I'm probably safe enough using only IPTC-metadata now but I'm still 
slightly traumatized ;-) after the Aperture-episode and I would like to 
have the Finder-tags assigned to my photos as well, if it's possible.


Sorry for the long answer & thanks again!


Regards,
Vlad





On 14 Mar 2020, at 21:29, Scott in Pollock wrote:


Vlad,

While I am sure this is doable in AppleScript and or Automator, my 
initial
tests here show it will be slow as all get out (filtering folder 
contents

on file extension, and setting finder labels, reiteratively).

Why not just get a proper cataloging tool like
[url=https://www.cdfinder.de/en/downloads.html]NeoFinder[/url], that 
will
automatically read the xmp files into its database, create thumbnails 
from
your images, and provide search and smart collections based on all of 
your

metadata both exif and xmp, with full editing ability, and do it super
fast. It is what I use and I couldn't be happier with it.

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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Scott in Pollock]

Vlad,

While I am sure this is doable in AppleScript and or Automator, my initial 
tests here show it will be slow as all get out (filtering folder contents 
on file extension, and setting finder labels, reiteratively).

Why not just get a proper cataloging tool like NeoFinder: 
https://www.cdfinder.de/en/downloads.html, that will automatically read the 
xmp files into its database, create thumbnails from your images, and 
provide search and smart collections based on all of your metadata both 
exif and xmp, with full editing ability, and do it super fast. It is what I 
use and I couldn't be happier with it.

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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Scott in Pollock]

Vlad,

While I am sure this is doable in AppleScript and or Automator, my initial 
tests here show it will be slow as all get out (filtering folder contents 
on file extension, and setting finder labels, reiteratively).

Why not just get a proper cataloging tool like 
[url=https://www.cdfinder.de/en/downloads.html]NeoFinder[/url], that will 
automatically read the xmp files into its database, create thumbnails from 
your images, and provide search and smart collections based on all of your 
metadata both exif and xmp, with full editing ability, and do it super 
fast. It is what I use and I couldn't be happier with it.

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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

GP, thanks for your detailled email.

No, I didn't knew that the EXIFtool parse the XMP file data.
(Now that you said this it seems obvious to me too - I thought initially 
that the EXIFtool will somehow read the photo-file, but that's nonsense, 
since the IPTC-data is in the XMP-file ant not in the RAW / JPG / TIFF - 
file itself).


Your 4-steps "*formula*" sounds much more valid than my dream script.
I understand on the high level what you're describing here but 
unfortunately I have no clue how to implement it since I haven't had the 
chance to dig into perl yet.


Let me clarify the only manual step that I still see in the whole 
process: I'll have to set the IPTC-metadata (at least the basic one like 
caption, keywords, author, copyright etc.) for each and every photo-file 
(CR2, JPG, TIFF).


Only after this "*manual labor*" :-) I'd like to choose either the 
root-folder of all my photo-subfolders or - if this will be too slow - 
each photo-subfolder and let the script automatically copy the 
IPTC-keywords of each photo-file (from the XMP-file, via EXIFtool) into 
its Finder-tags.


As I said initially, I thought about BBEdit first because BBEdit Talk is 
filled with GREP / regex - questions and it seem like a piece of cake 
(iterate over a series of text-files, parse the IPTC-keywords and pipe 
them into something that tag the photo-file with it… easy, right?! ;-)


If my question is actually inappropriate here or better suited elsewhere 
I'm sorry and totally grateful for each and every hint, because: I still 
have this HUGE PILE of photos to tag! ;-) :-(


Thanks again, GP!


Regards,
Vlad




On 14 Mar 2020, at 18:33, GP wrote:

Do you know "the EXIFtool, a command line utility" is just a wrapper 
for a

perl module you can download the source code  for from CPAN?

If you dig down into the perl source code you'll find the regular
expressions used by EXIFtool to parse XMP file data.  Since BBEdit 
uses the
PCRE library for grep searching, whatever regular expressions you find 
in

perl code can work with BBEdit (albeit you may have to do some work if
there are precompiled regular expression variables involved).

Also, EXIFtool can read .XMP files. So, if you have a faster means of
extracting the metadata from photo files and creating the .XMP files, 
you
can use that faster means and still use EXIFtool code on the trimmed 
down

metadata only .XMP files.

Also, for your dream script, write a perl script which imports the 
EXIFtool

perl module which:

1. For a given input directory, uses the glob function to build a list 
of

files of *.XMP files
2. Iterate over the list of XMP files and use the routine(s) from the
EXIFtool module to extract the desired tags
3. Extract the base file name from the XMP file name you've just 
extracted
the tags from and then glob another file list (e.g., base*.JPG, 
base*.TIFF)
4. Iterate over the file list created in 3 writting out to each file 
the

tags extacted from the specific XMP file iteration

As far as scaling concerns goes, that's a lot of files to be writing
metadata out to the file system on so I don't think you're going to 
find
any solution that's very speedy.  As I think you're hinting at, 
anything

that involves a manual step per file isn't a viable solution.

From your follow up postings I see you're trying to find a scripting 
type
solution using an automated (scripted?) combination of BBEdit features 
and
yet to be determined glue.  However great a development tool BBEdit 
is, I
don't think trying for a BBEdit specific solution is a good first 
choice to

pursue.

On Friday, March 13, 2020 at 5:37:02 AM UTC-7, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:


Hey!

This is a BBEdit-question, but I first need to give a little 
background to

it. :-)





[snip]





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.





[snip]





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



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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[GP]

Do you know "the EXIFtool, a command line utility" is just a wrapper for a 
perl module you can download the source code  for from CPAN?

If you dig down into the perl source code you'll find the regular 
expressions used by EXIFtool to parse XMP file data.  Since BBEdit uses the 
PCRE library for grep searching, whatever regular expressions you find in 
perl code can work with BBEdit (albeit you may have to do some work if 
there are precompiled regular expression variables involved).

Also, EXIFtool can read .XMP files. So, if you have a faster means of 
extracting the metadata from photo files and creating the .XMP files, you 
can use that faster means and still use EXIFtool code on the trimmed down 
metadata only .XMP files.

Also, for your dream script, write a perl script which imports the EXIFtool 
perl module which:

1. For a given input directory, uses the glob function to build a list of 
files of *.XMP files
2. Iterate over the list of XMP files and use the routine(s) from the 
EXIFtool module to extract the desired tags
3. Extract the base file name from the XMP file name you've just extracted 
the tags from and then glob another file list (e.g., base*.JPG, base*.TIFF)
4. Iterate over the file list created in 3 writting out to each file the 
tags extacted from the specific XMP file iteration

As far as scaling concerns goes, that's a lot of files to be writing 
metadata out to the file system on so I don't think you're going to find 
any solution that's very speedy.  As I think you're hinting at, anything 
that involves a manual step per file isn't a viable solution.

>From your follow up postings I see you're trying to find a scripting type 
solution using an automated (scripted?) combination of BBEdit features and 
yet to be determined glue.  However great a development tool BBEdit is, I 
don't think trying for a BBEdit specific solution is a good first choice to 
pursue.  

On Friday, March 13, 2020 at 5:37:02 AM UTC-7, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
>
> Hey!
>
> This is a BBEdit-question, but I first need to give a little background to 
> it. :-)
>
 

> [snip]
>
 

> 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.
>
 

> [snip]
>
 

> 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
>

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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

I run the little piece of AppleScript below supplemented with a loop 
within the xmpFiles (only to see that I'm able to loop… now at least 
you see that I don't know exactly what I'm doing! ;-):


---
	-- we can check the file extensions of a file against this list to 
evaluate if it's a XMP file

set xmp_ext_list to {"xmp"}

-- get the folder to check
set photoFolder to choose folder

	-- notice the use of "entire contents" to also go through subfolders of 
photoFolder

-- use a "whose" filter to find only the XMP files
tell application "Finder"
		set xmpFiles to (files of entire contents of photoFolder whose name 
extension is in xmp_ext_list) as alias list

end tell

set filePaths to {}
repeat with currentXMPfile in xmpFiles
set end of filePaths to {POSIX path of currentXMPfile}
end repeat
---

on a folder containing two subfolders with a total of 237 RAW (= 
CR2)-files and (only) 25 XMP-files and it took about 15 seconds (!) to 
finish.


I don't have any empirical values to compare with but: Is it not a 
little slow for only


- filter from 237 + 25 = 262 files
- spread over only two subfolders
- the 25 XMP-files

?!

Could it be that AppleScript is not the perfect tool at least for this 
part?!



Regards,
Vlad




On 14 Mar 2020, at 17:37, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:


I've found [here on StackOverflow][1] how to:

- choose a folder
- filter only the XMP-files
- store the name of the XMP-files in an array

Here's the modified part of the AppleScript:

---

	-- we can check the file extensions of a file against this list to 
evaluate if it's a XMP file

set xmp_ext_list to {"xmp"}

-- get the folder to check
set f to choose folder

	-- notice the use of "entire contents" to also go through subfolders 
of f

-- use a "whose" filter to find only the video files
tell application "Finder"
		set xmpFiles to (files of entire contents of f whose name extension 
is in xmp_ext_list) as alias list

end tell

---

I'm still searching for the missing pieces… :-)


[1]: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7854727/loop-over-video-files-in-folder-to-get-video-length



On 14 Mar 2020, at 16:55, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:


Jean-Christophe,


thanks a lot for your reply!

Google-ing (see my first email) I've found already [the very same 
AppleScript from Shane Stanley back in 2002 (!)][1] - so yes, that's 
another puzzle piece! Hurray! :-)


I'm still missing a lot:

1. I don't know how to peek the first XMP-file in the chosen folder 
and then apply the magic of extracting the IPTC-keywords of it. This 
is what I've manually done with BBEdit, but I don’t know how to put 
it in an AppleScript / RegEx :-(


2. How do I pipe the result from point 1 to Shane Stanley's 
AppleScript? (*)


3. And how do I tell to the above AppleScript to which CR2 / JPG / 
TIFF - file (with the same name as the XMP-file from point 1 above) 
to apply the tags (= IPTC-keywords) extracted from the XMP-file in 
point 1 above?!


4. And finally: How do I loop to the next XMP-file within the chosen 
folder?


It feels like I have less than I'm missing right now! :-D

At least the points 1, 2 and 4 *seem* trivial… I'll google them.

Thanks again, Jean-Christophe!


Regards,
Vlad

(*): I've found [a hint from Dr. Drang in an AppleScript called from 
KeyboardMaestro to tag a file][2]. What I like about it is that it 
uses a list of tags… that could be the result of my point 1 above! 
:-) Ok, I still don't know how to pipe it to Keyboard Maestro, so I'm 
still on square (= point ;-) 1! :-(






[1]: https://www.macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=45167

[2]: 
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2018/10/a-little-tagging-automation/




On 14 Mar 2020, at 16:19, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:


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  
wrote:


Hey!

What I've got so far:

	• I manage to extract the IPTC-keywords from the initial 
example:



 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#;>
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"
 

Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

I've found [here on StackOverflow][1] how to:

- choose a folder
- filter only the XMP-files
- store the name of the XMP-files in an array

Here's the modified part of the AppleScript:

---

	-- we can check the file extensions of a file against this list to 
evaluate if it's a XMP file

set xmp_ext_list to {"xmp"}

-- get the folder to check
set f to choose folder

	-- notice the use of "entire contents" to also go through subfolders of 
f

-- use a "whose" filter to find only the video files
tell application "Finder"
		set xmpFiles to (files of entire contents of f whose name extension is 
in xmp_ext_list) as alias list

end tell

---

I'm still searching for the missing pieces… :-)


[1]: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7854727/loop-over-video-files-in-folder-to-get-video-length



On 14 Mar 2020, at 16:55, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:


Jean-Christophe,


thanks a lot for your reply!

Google-ing (see my first email) I've found already [the very same 
AppleScript from Shane Stanley back in 2002 (!)][1] - so yes, that's 
another puzzle piece! Hurray! :-)


I'm still missing a lot:

1. I don't know how to peek the first XMP-file in the chosen folder 
and then apply the magic of extracting the IPTC-keywords of it. This 
is what I've manually done with BBEdit, but I don’t know how to put 
it in an AppleScript / RegEx :-(


2. How do I pipe the result from point 1 to Shane Stanley's 
AppleScript? (*)


3. And how do I tell to the above AppleScript to which CR2 / JPG / 
TIFF - file (with the same name as the XMP-file from point 1 above) to 
apply the tags (= IPTC-keywords) extracted from the XMP-file in point 
1 above?!


4. And finally: How do I loop to the next XMP-file within the chosen 
folder?


It feels like I have less than I'm missing right now! :-D

At least the points 1, 2 and 4 *seem* trivial… I'll google them.

Thanks again, Jean-Christophe!


Regards,
Vlad

(*): I've found [a hint from Dr. Drang in an AppleScript called from 
KeyboardMaestro to tag a file][2]. What I like about it is that it 
uses a list of tags… that could be the result of my point 1 above! 
:-) Ok, I still don't know how to pipe it to Keyboard Maestro, so I'm 
still on square (= point ;-) 1! :-(






[1]: https://www.macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=45167

[2]: 
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2018/10/a-little-tagging-automation/




On 14 Mar 2020, at 16:19, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:


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  
wrote:


Hey!

What I've got so far:

• I manage to extract the IPTC-keywords from the initial example:


 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#;>
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:-1"
 photomechanic:PMVersion="PM6">
 

 Ben
 Mina
 Tom
 Vlad

 

 


using BBEdit's "Process Line Containing…"-command, where I 
searched for


 

• I replaced (manually, not via a script etc.) then
• first

 

• and then



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.



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

Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

Jean-Christophe,


thanks a lot for your reply!

Google-ing (see my first email) I've found already [the very same 
AppleScript from Shane Stanley back in 2002 (!)][1] - so yes, that's 
another puzzle piece! Hurray! :-)


I'm still missing a lot:

1. I don't know how to peek the first XMP-file in the chosen folder and 
then apply the magic of extracting the IPTC-keywords of it. This is what 
I've manually done with BBEdit, but I don’t know how to put it in an 
AppleScript / RegEx :-(


2. How do I pipe the result from point 1 to Shane Stanley's AppleScript? 
(*)


3. And how do I tell to the above AppleScript to which CR2 / JPG / TIFF 
- file (with the same name as the XMP-file from point 1 above) to apply 
the tags (= IPTC-keywords) extracted from the XMP-file in point 1 
above?!


4. And finally: How do I loop to the next XMP-file within the chosen 
folder?


It feels like I have less than I'm missing right now! :-D

At least the points 1, 2 and 4 *seem* trivial… I'll google them.

Thanks again, Jean-Christophe!


Regards,
Vlad

(*): I've found [a hint from Dr. Drang in an AppleScript called from 
KeyboardMaestro to tag a file][2]. What I like about it is that it uses 
a list of tags… that could be the result of my point 1 above! :-) Ok, 
I still don't know how to pipe it to Keyboard Maestro, so I'm still on 
square (= point ;-) 1! :-(






[1]: https://www.macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=45167

[2]: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2018/10/a-little-tagging-automation/



On 14 Mar 2020, at 16:19, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:


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  
wrote:


Hey!

What I've got so far:

• I manage to extract the IPTC-keywords from the initial example:


 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#;>
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:-1"
 photomechanic:PMVersion="PM6">
 

 Ben
 Mina
 Tom
 Vlad

 

 


using BBEdit's "Process Line Containing…"-command, where I searched 
for


 

• I replaced (manually, not via a script etc.) then
• first

 

• and then



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.



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 

Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

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  wrote:
> 
> Hey!
> 
> What I've got so far:
> 
>   • I manage to extract the IPTC-keywords from the initial example:
> 
> 
>  http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#;>
>  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:-1"
>  photomechanic:PMVersion="PM6">
>  
> 
>  Ben
>  Mina
>  Tom
>  Vlad
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> using BBEdit's "Process Line Containing…"-command, where I searched for
> 
>  
> 
>   • I replaced (manually, not via a script etc.) then
>   • first
> 
>  
> 
>   • and then
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
> 
>  http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#;>
>  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:-1"
>  photomechanic:PMVersion="PM6">
>  
> 
>  Ben
>  Mina
>  Tom
>  Vlad
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
>  Ben
>  Mina
>  Tom
>  Vlad
> 
> 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 

Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

Maarten,


thanks for your quick reply!

I mentioned grep because I'd like to search for the keywords that are 
recognizable due to the rfd:li - tags in the XMP-file AND also because 
this is something I *suppose* it's easy to do with grep in BBEdit (even 
if it's still out of my reach :-)… as well as the rest of my 
wish-script :-/).


Thanks again!


Regards,
Vlad




On 13 Mar 2020, at 17:06, Maarten Sneep wrote:


Hi,

If you need to work with xml I recommend to use a real xml parser. I 
prefer to use python with lxml. It will allow you to exploit the 
hierarchy of the xml file in ways that grep will not allow you to do.


Best,

Maarten


On 2020-03-13, 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




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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Maarten Sneep]

Hi,

If you need to work with xml I recommend to use a real xml parser. I prefer to 
use python with lxml. It will allow you to exploit the hierarchy of the xml 
file in ways that grep will not allow you to do.

Best,

Maarten

> On 2020-03-13, 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
> 
> 

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Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

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:

1. take this photo-folder;
2. read from the first XMP-file the IPTC-keywords;
3. 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;

4. 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:


---


 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#;>
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:-1"
 photomechanic:PMVersion="PM6">
 

 Ben
 Mina
 Tom
 Vlad

 

 



---

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:

---

 Ben
 Mina
 Tom
 Vlad

---

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


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(probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

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:


---


 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#;>
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:-1"
 photomechanic:PMVersion="PM6">
 

 Ben
 Mina
 Tom
 Vlad

 

 



---

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:

---

 Ben
 Mina
 Tom
 Vlad

---

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


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