I currently have a gallery with several albums, each of which has 15-80 images. On my most recent large update (300 images, 500mb) only the first 2 albums are showing the metadata. When downloading the full image the tags still show, but when doing a full refresh, or refreshing the metadata one album at a time the tags just don't show up. Where should I look next to trouble shoot this?

-Tony

This can have numerous reasons. For example maybe the camera you use does not follow the EXIF standard - some apparently don't - and we have no "reader" for it.

using "ExifTool by Phil Harvey" I was able to track down the problem. The current version of Windows Photo Gallery is no longer tagging to the IPTC space. It tags to Exif:XPKeywords (0x9c9e) , XMP-dc:Subject, XMP-microsoft:LastKeywordXMP, XMP-microsoft:LastKeywordIPTC , But not to IPTC:Keywords.

I don't know if this merits a bug report, a code fix, or any further attention... once I figure out how to have the tags copy over from one part of metadata to another, I will post my solution.

XMP is not the same as EXIF data. But you can, of course, enable the xmpMetadata plugin to handle it.