• Resolved spinhead

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    Adding images to a new post, the image Title and Caption are autofilling with the word ‘Screenshot’

    This is not something I put there, nor are the images named in anyway. They are indeed screenshots, and were named that originally by the OS, but I’ve renamed them and regardless of that, I have not requested prompted or otherwise encouraged this autofill, because it means I have to manually delete both fields for every image.

    The only change I’m aware of is that I recently created a profile for Microsoft Edge instead of using the blank default profile. That said, I see no reason this particular autofill should miraculously spawn because of that, since allegedly autofill information only comes from previously manually filled information.

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  • That’s likely from your image’s Exif properties.

    WordPress has always populated those fields with the file’s metadata on upload (wherever available) — it has nothing to do with your change of browser profile.

    Thread Starter spinhead

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    Using identify -verbose /Users/joel/reharmonization1.jpg

    There is nothing in the exif information that includes the word ‘Screenshot’

    EDIT
    MacOS Monterey 12.7.5
    WP 6.6.1

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by spinhead. Reason: add OS and WP version info

    Thanks, I did find it as “EXIF User Comments:”, added there by the macOS screenshot tool. Guessing it is using that to auto-classify “Screenshots” as a category / “Smart Album” in the Photos app.

    I had this on files exported from Affinity Designer, where the screenshot was a reference layer, set to invisible 🙂 Unchecking “Embed metadata” in the export dialog did the trick, but any EXIF editor will probably give access to edit / blank out that field.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by airwhale.
    Thread Starter spinhead

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    forgot I’d posted this. remembered this tool and found a solution

    exiftool -UserComment="something useful" file.jpg

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