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Title: Annotation available again after restore
Post by: frankdarwin on July 22, 2024, 10:29:54 PM
Hello,
I accidentally deleted a photo from IM.
When I noticed this, I restored the photo from a backup from the previous day. I was then amazed to see that the annotations (assignments to persons) were there again. It is a JPG file.
Why is that? I had expected that the assignments would have to be made again.

Frank
Title: Re: Annotation available again after restore
Post by: RobiWan on July 22, 2024, 10:46:55 PM
Quote from: frankdarwin on July 22, 2024, 10:29:54 PMI accidentally deleted a photo from IM.
I believe this is the point - possible that you have deleted a photo from IM not from disk?

Title: Re: Annotation available again after restore
Post by: frankdarwin on July 22, 2024, 11:29:23 PM
Unfortunately not.
I deleted the photo in IM from the directory, not just from the database.
Title: Re: Annotation available again after restore
Post by: Mario on July 23, 2024, 12:13:18 AM
Working with XMP Face Regions (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/people.htm#a_xmp_face_regions?dl=hid-66) maybe?
If the file was written back, IMatch has persisted face annotations as XMP face regions and stored the person tags as tags for these regions. When you re-import the files, IMatch finds the face regions, finds the tags and matches them to persons automatically.
Title: Re: Annotation available again after restore
Post by: frankdarwin on July 23, 2024, 08:48:09 PM
Thak you.