Kirk,
I'm not sure I follow your description.
here is what I do, and I have not changed any settings on PM since updating from beta 4 directly to beta 6.
**I'm shooting Canon CR2 raw.
**Stick CF card in reader and that brings up the PM ingest dialog.
**Click on "IPTC Stationary Pad" button to write caption. (Global IPTC stationary selected)
**Click on Ingest. (to primary destination, no secondary destination)
**Ingest occurs, into folder with name, and folder name picks up the variables there.
**Now I have a folder full of CR2's, but all the iptc fields are empty.
**Now I click on the round Info symbol on the thumbnail, and the iptc info window opens, none of the fields are filled.
**Now I click on "Apply Stationary Pad" at the bottom of the iptc info window, and the fields do fill with the proper info from the stationary pad, including tokens and text replacement, as they should have during the ingest.
**I click OK., and close the iptc info window.
**Then I once again click on the round I symbol, on same thumbnail, and the iptc info window opens EMPTY AGAIN. the info did not get saved.
BUT: I just took one of the CR2 files, did a "Save As" to convert it to a JPEG image. and tried to apply the stationary pad to the JPEG. Now the IPTC info sticks.
So the problem must be something with the handling of CR2 files
As a test I just ingested a few files shot in JPEG, and there is no problem with the IPTC info.
thanks, Nati