Hi Vik,

Thanks for the samples.

There are two problems: 1) You must use the -a option to see all tags (otherwise duplicates are supressed, and some IPTC information is duplicated in other formats), and 2) there is an apparent format error in this IPTC information which prevents ExifTool from reading some of it.

You can use the -v option to see all the details. Currently, the warning is only printed in verbose mode. (Maybe I should change this.) But once ExifTool encounters the unknown record number (255), it assumes the rest of the information is corrupted and stops trying to read it. Regardless of whether or not it is legal to use indefined record (dataset) numbers, the IPTC specification states that record numbers must be in sequence, so there should be no records after 255 (the maximum record number) anyway. So your file is definitely written incorrectly.

- Phil