Thank you Kirk, for the prompt reply.
So that's how it works. I'm coming from years with BreezeBrowser Pro and while it lacks the ability to color tag an image, when you do tag it, it simply adds the filename to a text file called "tagged_files.txt" WITHOUT changing anything in the file itself.
Different philosophy I guess, but if I have an image tagged in one directory, if I copy/move it to another directory, I usually do NOT want it tagged there, so I really like the way BBPro handles this issue. And I would never have considered tagging an image to be an "edit" of the image.
The other issue, at least for me, is that I often upload images to sites with very strict file size limits. When I produce a JPG file for those sites, I strip all the exif and iptc data (when I create the file) keeping only my copyright info and make the file the highest quality possible within the given size limit. To have space added to a file simply because I've tagged it with PM inflates the size when I'd rather not do that.
With this in mind, is there an easy way (or any way) to revert the file back to the original size stripping out whatever PM might have added to it?
Thank you.