Tropy Photo automatically imports weird description

Hi,
when adding photos to tropy, some get a weird extra metadatum consisting in a long string. I cannot figure out why certain photos in tropy show these entries and others don’t. I compared the properties of the files and I couldn’t find any reason why. These long strings cause problems because tropy refers to them for auto-suggest, thereby considerably slowing down the application.

Can I prevent tropy from creating this extra metadata when importing a photo?

The metadata looks like this in tropy:

And the whole string looks like this:
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Thank you very much!

Hi,
would you mind to share this image so we can have a closer look?

I guess the description is stored as a JPEG comment, which we’ve started to import in the last release.

Here’s the file. Thank you!

It seems like our forum system strips the JPEG comments of the image away. Could you provide a download link by any chance?

https://tubcloud.tu-berlin.de/s/8Bmx9cfw8FfWDQw

But as far as I can see the image has no proper JPEG comment …

Thanks, I can reproduce the issue with that image.

I am also having this problem. The weird descriptions are causing major lags when I try to enter metadata in Tropy. Have any solutions been proposed yet? Thanks.

Yes, we’ll stop importing JPEG comments by default in the upcoming release.

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I’ve just had the same issue: is that any normal given this thread dates back from 2019?

(The weird description is not per se the problem; it is rather that it seems to slow down Tropy)

This issue is only in 1.12. Unfortunately we started importing JPEG comments by default, unaware that some software/cameras store such data there. We’ll try to strip off these comments in the next update.

Meanwhile, if there are only a handful of photos affected it should be easy to delete the comments (you need to remove the description on both the item and the photo); if there are many we can remove them for you if you share a link to your project file with us.

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