OK, continuing on my media cleanup...it obviously has been a while since I added new media to the media gallery because:
I was shocked to see when importing photos that the existing IPTC Caption/Description is completely ignored:
I already have this IPTC field populated, and was totally not expecting to have to duplicate effort by manually copying/pasting the data already in the photo into the RootsMagic Caption field.
So with this sad functionality omission, I have to ask if there is any good solution to get an IPTC field into the RM database's Caption or Description fields?
Now I have reviewed this SQLiteToolsForRootsMagic page:
Media Metadata, Read, Write, Compare with Picasa #media #metadata #picasa
However
[a] this is out of date (targetted to RM5, so may no longer be applicable)
[b] I tried it anyways and after creating the RM-Media.db3 file, the suggested SQL query does not work (gives syntax error, deleting one or both semi-colons did not allow it to run):