I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this problem: with the latest upgrade, we lost metadata titles and descriptions of many of our pictures.
They didn't just blank out though, the picture title and description were replaced by the name of the camera with which the pictures were taken, in this case "olympus digital camera" as you can see here:
http://www.tuscanypictures.com/elba/trekking-through-the-caprili-goat-houses/caprile01.jpg.php
I've got over 500 photos coming up if I search for "olympus" and the whole site has almost 3000 pictures. Is anyone else seeing this problem for them? I don't know if it is a bug or just my site - anyone can offer some suggestions before I start redoing all the titles and descriptions again?
Thanks,
Lourdes

I have not heard about this until yet. Did you try to do a metadata refresh? Are you sure you upgraded all files? (I suggest to try this not on a live site just to be sure).

We had a problem with 1.2.7 on that: http://www.zenphoto.org/2009/12/workaround-to-prevent-accidentally-deleted-image-descriptions-in-1-2-7/ and there was a issue with GPS data in 1.2.9 which is fixed in the nightly: http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/ticket/1420

Generally Zenphoto, more specifially the GDlib, is not able to change the metadata in the images itself.

btw how do you get title and description automatically ? As i am still struggling with fetching title and description while uploading ... just installed nightly build but no help.

@atomicmak: You have to add them to the EXIF/ITPC metadata of your images before uploading.

my title and Description is already there.
for your ref.

here are some url of files having IPTC/EXIF in it but zenphoto dosent take title.

try to uplod or test in your offline version and guide me how to get.

http://kevincreation.com/images/20100223161700_img_9933.jpg
http://kevincreation.com/images/20090915142352_brd_2971.jpg
http://kevincreation.com/images/20090522104119_dsc_5947.jpg
http://kevincreation.com/images/20090522104119_dsc_5947.jpg

these all files have EXIF/IPTC with tags and all which i need.
but somehow when uploaded into zenphoto the title gets messed up with filename instead the title from exif.

and when refreshed metadata in admin it gets title.
but refreshing everytime all the filez in database for metadata update takes huge amount of time so not that workable solution.

I will try to reproduce that and get back to you.

So I made a test in my offline and online test installation and I had no problems getting the EXIF title, description and tags:
http://zenphoto.maltem.de/exiftest/

The one image that is missing the data has no data of that type, at least not if I open it in Photoshop and view the details.

i have tried both online and offline but unable to set it up. can you guide what i need to do ?

also i can provide you my user/pass of my live setup so that you can upload one of that file and see what happens.

but for that i may need your email where to email you.. if you can help me out on this.

sent you email from your site with user/pass if you can help me out.

files i sent you were from my other pixelpost application . same file if i take from my hd from where i uploaded and upload to zenphot it dosent takes the title like that eagle did not took

Well, I really did nothing specifially. Just dropped the images into an album and let Zenphoto discover them. Did you try to clear the image cache? Sometimes a refresh metadata is just necessary.

Actually my collegue sbillard is the EXIF expert. He will be back around end of the week and probably of more help than I on this. I suggest you open a ticket about this issue so he will spot it. Best you link to this thread and keep the images online for him to test with, too.

i have already raised ticket 4 days ago.

here are the final images link to test.

http://kevincreation.com/issues/zenphoto/_BRC3015.jpg
http://kevincreation.com/issues/zenphoto/_BRC3167.jpg
http://kevincreation.com/issues/zenphoto/_BRC4267.jpg

try this and i am sure you would not get title though it has same method applied IPTC/EXIF through my CaptureNX

I will try these soon. Sorry, forgot that there is of course already a ticket.

Well, still working for me using my local MAMP and my test site. This time I even get all three titles: http://zenphoto.maltem.de/exiftest

Sorry, best you add your server config details to the ticket as well so my collegue will have all info needed in place when he returns.

Yes, tried the metadate refresh and checked all files were upgraded.
As the problem only comes up with photos taken from a certain camera and not with others, it is really weird that the titles and description changed from the ones we had manually worked to write.... sigh, I suppose we'll just have to rewrite titles and descriptions again manually.
Thanks for the suggestions though.
atomicmak: zenphoto at first just takes the image file as a title, no description. it doesn't really pick up anything automatically.

Hello,
I am having a similar problem. I posted this question yesterday http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=7085 and acrylian suggested that I upgrade. I have done so and still can't get the tag (links) to work. I checked my images and the IPTC data is present. The caption (description) works just fine and the name of the tags appear, but will not return results when selected.

Thank-you!

@acrylian - i have checked your exiftest and seen you have got title. here with my case when i upload the same image to zenphoto i get this in uploaded form.

http://kevincreation.com/issues/zenphoto2.JPG

dont know whats going wrong with my offline and online setups.

see refreshing metadata everyday when uploading 2 image or 3 image per day is not a good solution as once you have 100's or 1000's of files in gallery it may be impossible to refresh metadata for 2 new files and it may take long long time.

@discovertuscanyi: No, Zenphoto takes all meta data it supports, incl. the description (see my test site for atomicmak images).

@reneesanguinetti: Some cameras do things in special ways sometimes, we of course can't built in support for all. Best is tell us what camera you exactly use if images fail.

@atomicmak: Well, I really have no idea, it might be your server configuration. Please add that to your ticket. So my collegue sbillard has all data necessary to work with.

thanks acrylian.
would you mind checking your email to get user/pass of my live and just try to upload in one of category to know whats the issue i am talking bout.

have sent you user/pass to your email