Hello. First: MANY MANY thanks for Exiftool. Even with my little brain I could modify lots of images-metadata that wasn't possible with other programs. Specially the features to change the Exif-entries is so helpful! Now to the task: I have two images in two folders [named: deutsch, english], one with German, the other with English keywords. I want to create, copy a new image in a new folder [named: beide] and copy first the german and second the english kewords into the new image. result: one image with all keywords and the English, German keywordlists should be separated by a Pipe. My 5 step sollution is this up to now:

The Problem: if I look at the keywords in Adobe [Photoshop and Bridge] the additional second block of english keywords are not separated correctly, the are comma separated instead of semicolon like the German ones. It looks like this:

Could be, that results because the xmp:Keywords tag is no list-tag or has another list-format. I tried it also with the XMP-dc:subject tag but it resulted in not visible english keywords in Adobe although all the keywords showed in Exiftool with

Does anyone have an idea, how I can create a correct keywordlist in the new image?
Many thanks!
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Dear Phil, many thanks for your reply and your hint. I tried this:

but it didn't work. The resulting keywordlist showed just the english keywords. Did you mean it like that or am I too dump?
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pixelpicker

Phil - Genius! It works and is a very short and easy code. For all the people who want do insert additional keywords from another image in a copied image, here the code:

deutsch is a folder with images with german keywords
these images are copied to a folder beide with the

then the additional english keywords from images in a folder english are inserted in the images in folder beide with

Note: The images in folder english and deutsch that have the corresponding keywords MUST have the same names. The created corresponding images in folder beide will also have the same name.

Many thanks Phil! Without you I coudn't have worked it out.
Have a nice day.
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