Windows 10: Maintain Photo Gallery tagging

From what I read the support for Windows (Live) Photo Gallery is fading but that Photos, as far I read and checked, doesn't maintain the tags.

I have 20k+ photos with all the people tagged. If I lose access to Photo Gallery is all the hundreds of hours of work lost?

As you can imagine this is a major issue and I'd be grateful for any insights.

Richard

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How do I migrate photos from Win Photo Gallery to Win Photos WITH all tag information?

So you're using "people" tags; I was afraid of that. All other Gallery tags are readable by Explorer. See

this thread for more on the subject. It talks about using "normal" tags to accompany the people tags so that you can access them in Explorer. I assume that will work but Photos will soon have full-fledged people tagging as well so you may want to just
keep using Gallery until Photos is enhanced (it should be soon since I think all that's needed is the ability to tag existing links).

I don't use OneDrive but why can't you just point Photos' Sources to it? Are you saying there's some sort of incompatibility with how OneDrive handles Gallery?

 

Windows 10 Photo app

I have a similar problem. I used Photo Gallery for years. I have tons of photos with all sorts of tags. I now like using the Photo app that came with Windows 10. Photo picks up all my photos from Photo Gallery. However the metadata does not seem to
come with them. Is there a way to fix this?

Also, I don't see a way to use tags in Photo, even when tagging for the first time.

Thanks for your help.

RK

 

Hi RTurnock.

While I can't say exactly how advance MS Photos is in terms of their facial recognition, some products like Google Photo scares me when it comes to facial recognition. Identify a person and let it run.

You might want to give both products a trail. Find a couple of people in your current library at different ages in their life, load a dozen or so photos for each and determine results. You may wish to search Google Photo and see about its capabilities.


Ken

 

Thanks. I have played with Google Photo and it, like Photo Gallery, can be eerie. I couldn't find out how to manually tag a person in Google, am I missing it?

I can't believe Microsoft did this there must be millions of photos and millions of hours work at risk of being wasted.

Thanks again

Richard

 

I don't remember. Was helping someone else although I do have to do something with my wife's Picasa's abb. It is no longer being developed.

You could review Google Help.

Google Photos Help