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Onedrive re-downloading old file versions
Mike Williams Ok, apologies, didn't really think of any other ways of using OneDrive to what I'm doing. This is all done in the route OneDrive folder, on my PC. Set up during installation of Windows through the OneDrive wizard and is always edited via the explorer folder direct. And also happens when I edit aon the backup hard drives and then copy across the newer file into the OneDrive one also.
So it's via windows explorer one a Microsoft windows PC. In the original folder configured when setting up OneDrive on fresh install of the PC, in D/OneDrive
Then open this online folder (all files available offline so exist on HDD) navigate to, as an example Christmas 2023 folder. I want to tag these photos with Christmas 2023 plus additional information of location and people in the keywords.
All of this is via windows explorer, I open the folder, select all the 100 photos, click on "Add Tag" in the preview panel with all other metadata and fill in the data en mass. 100 photos tagged, at source of OneDrive in explorer as Christmas 2023.
Then begin the upload to OneDrive. Let's say modified files are May 4 2024. These sync to onedrive.
A few moments later OneDrive will redownload 5 of these photos, date modified 1 Jan 2024. No keywords but the exact same photo file name meta data only keywords are missing.
I can then focus on 1 of those 5 files and every change will be locked into undoing on OneDrive any changes from that date, rotation in windows photo viewer, filename change or keyword tag via windows explorer. It just won't edit the file without physically removing it from the OneDrive folder so that OneDrive syncs the deleted change and then re-adding the file as a whole new file
(This is the 2nd time typing on my mobile as the page refreshed so apologies if it feels a little blunt)
- Apologies Mike. Having reread my previous reply I can see that where I thought I had written more detail on using the windows explorer window I had glanced over that and can see where I had omitted stuff. I was trying to type this up on my mobile as away from home for a few days and the page reloaded a few times while trying to type it up.
Sorry that I was blunt and hopefully my last reply has more detail. I assumed most people would access files via windows explorer and therefore omitted that step but understand that being useful to understand where the issue might be arising. But agreed showing someone the process and what OneDrive is doing would be easier than trying to explain it (badly) here. So I'll just keep doing what's working in an albeit clunky manor If I navigate to a folder containing a jpeg file in windows explorer I see such items as
Filename
Date created
Date modified
Rating
File type
File size
And so on (a long list of items that can be made into a column in windows explorer) which the files within a folder can then be sorted by for example sorting by date created.
(My PC>D:/>OneDrive>Pictures>"folder")
One of those columns that exists that I have activated for sorting purposes is tags aka keywords.
If you have the details panel active in windows explorer then when you select a file, particularly a jpeg it will list the attributes in a pane on the right of my windows explorer window. Ha details such as filename, date created, file size,rating, keywords, etc. is this what you see on your jpeg file? Alternatively, right clicking the file and navigating to properties also bring up the same details.
I am selecting the tags attribute option within the details panel so it is highlighted and adding in the keyword I would like applied to the file.
If there is something in those steps I have omitted as that seems like the only way of getting to what I mentioned above in changing those keyword attributes. But the process of doing that works for 95% of the file attributes I modify.
Please let me know if there is a point I lose you or if there's a description you don't understand what I'm trying to describe.