You are a credit to the IT/Perl/scripting world. Okay, renamed. Drag & drop photo/image/file that had BREEZEBROWSER write to the IPTC caption field, quickly the black box flashes up and is gone. Tried keeping photo in the same folder as exiftool ( the stand alone one: "exiftool(-k).exe" ) (exiftool(-k -s -g1).exe). will keep trying stuff... but am stumped at the moment. Just fired this off to see if any help was available. Marty