Title / Description not included

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Running 2026.04.9 on docker

Have never really been using the title or description fields on photos, hence Im not really sure if this is a unexpected behavior or a feature request.

When a title or description is present on a photo, I would expect it to be shown in PS, I would expect it to be shown along with tags as part of “info” on pictures. I would also expect it to be searchable.

As for now, im not able to get the information into Photostructure. Have found some very old discussions on the forum, indicating there should be support.

Im normally using DigiKam to change my photos, including correcting dates/time and setting tags, which works great. The import to PS is easy, I just let PS look at the same folders. Search and info is updated.

However, When I set a description or title on a photo, the information never shows up in PS. I have tried to also include changes to tags, and these changes are updated. The title made in DigiKam is shown in Windows when showing properties on the file.
I have tried to make simple “title” changes in Windows, using properties. These have same behavior, they show in Digikam, however not in PS

Something I do wrong, or is title/Description not supported?

2

Like all things metadata, title and description are PITAs. There are at least three “title” ish tags and eight “description”/“caption”/“subject” tags.

I’ve done more research into this since the last release, and saw that windows didn’t support the other established standards. I’m building support for metadata editing as well.

For the UX:

  1. Titles, if I can find one, are displayed in the asset header.
  2. Description/subject/xpsubject/caption is displayed in the asset info panel.
3

Hi Again,

In the settings.toml i have found this. So, running standard.

# --------------------------
# titleTags or PS_TITLE_TAGS
# --------------------------
#
# Look in these tag names, in this order, for the title of a given media file.
#
# Default value:
# titleTags = [
#   "XPTitle",
#   "Title",
#   "ObjectName"
# ]

I have been looking into the actual metadata on the pictures, and they include e.g. this part, hence should be read.

 "iptc": {
        "DateCreated": "20260716",
        "TimeCreated": "140504+0000",
        "ObjectName": "Gul Tur Title",
        "Caption": "Gul tur Caption",
        "Keywords": [
          "Ferie",
          "Sommerferie",
          "GL",
          "Greenland"
        ]

or like this in another part of the metadata. The title part is stated 6 different places in the metadata when using the EXIFtool online to read it.

      "dc": {
        "subject": [
          "Ferie",
          "Sommerferie",
          "GL",
          "Greenland"
        ],
        "title": {
          "lang": "x-default",
          "value": "Gul Tur Title"
        },
        "description": {
          "lang": "x-default",
          "value": "Gul tur Caption"
        }

In the GUI there are no showing of title or description. I have tried to re-sync, both all files and the specefic file once more.

Can there be a error in 2026.04.9? Be aware I restarted to secure I did not have some old stuff in the setup, when you released 2026.04.9.

EDIT: Im e-mailing you the file if that helps.

4

Thanks for the file, I’ll see what’s going amiss and try to get it addressed.