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I have had some strange things happening in my IPTC pad...when I set the IPTC to load during the ingest of a disk, often I find that some of the text is missing when I open the pad and complete the caption for the image. It happens primarily in the Category and Photographer listings where letters are missing from the end of what was originally typed. I use Windows. This is a bit annoying.
I am using the local. I open the one I want and then close the stationary and ingest. By the way, not to sound too dumb, but what is the difference between the two. Thanks.