"Property Loss" Message copying images

[Guest]

I have just got a Dell Inspiron running Vista Home Premium. Most things work
fine, but I have come across an irritation when trying to use removable media
- usb keys, CF cards, etc. Most files copy across as they should, but image
files give rise to a warning message box entitled Property Loss, which then
asks me "Are you sure you want to copy this file without its properties? If
I click yes, it copies OK as far as I can see, but I have to do this for each
image. Since these are mostly jpegs (some bmps) that I have moved about on
usb keys regularly on XP computers, I find this baffling and I haven't been
able find any information about it.

Help - does anyone know what this is about please? What properties are
missing and what can I do about it?

 

[John Inzer]

I have just got a Dell Inspiron running Vista Home Premium. Most
things work fine, but I have come across an irritation when trying to
use removable media - usb keys, CF cards, etc. Most files copy
across as they should, but image files give rise to a warning message
box entitled Property Loss, which then asks me "Are you sure you want
to copy this file without its properties? If I click yes, it copies
OK as far as I can see, but I have to do this for each image. Since
these are mostly jpegs (some bmps) that I have moved about on usb
keys regularly on XP computers, I find this baffling and I haven't
been able find any information about it.

Help - does anyone know what this is about please? What properties
are missing and what can I do about it?

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Maybe it's referring to metadata like...
the date taken, camera info...etc.

Right click one of the .jpg files and go to...
Properties / Summary tab / Advanced button...
to see the info.

The following articles discuss metadata.

EXIF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif

IPTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Press_Telecommunications_Council

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

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[John Inzer]

Here's another article on metadata:

Metadata and the Windows
Vista Photo Gallery
http://tinyurl.com/3994ha

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
=============================

 

[Guest]

Many thanks John. I have looked at the properties, but cannot find any
pattern there. Since posting my original message, Dell support phoned me
back and spent quite a time looking at what was happening on my machine.
After going away to think about it, their final conclusion was that this is a
glitch in Vista, which they will be raising with Microsoft. In the meantime,
I guess I'll have to work around it.

Thanks again.

 

[Guest]

That was an interesting article - I now know much more about metadata. I'm
obviously missing something, but I thought that USB keys and CF cards acted
like any other memory, so that whatever was in a file would be reproduced
exactly when it was copied.

Many thanks again John