In Windows Photo Gallery, you add some metadata to a picture file. When you open this picture in a third-party tool, some metadata fields for the picture file may be duplicated, dropped, or corrupted.

This issue occurs in Windows XP, in Windows Vista, and in Windows Server 2008.

For example, you open and save a .jpg picture in Windows Photo Gallery, and then you embed some metadata into the picture by using a third-party application. When you open this picture in Adobe Photoshop, you receive an error.

In this example, if you open the .jpg file in a hexadecimal editor, you see duplicated XMP metadata tags. One metadata tag is set to xmp:xmpmeta and the other one is set to x:xmpmeta.

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If you create a redirected folder, such as C:\NewPicturesFolder, and then set the new folder as the Pictures target folder by using Windows Explorer, when you start Windows Live Photo Gallery it does not recognize or open the new folder.

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On a Windows Vista-based computer, you delete a picture in the Picture Library in Windows Media Center. The picture thumbnail still appears in the Picture Library. The picture thumbnail appears in the Picture Library until you exit and then return to the Picture Library.

On a Windows Vista-based computer, when you delete a picture in Windows Media Center, you receive an error message that resembles the following:

AUDIO ERROR

The Url contains one or more invalid characters.

After you search for a picture in Windows Vista, you receive the following error message when you try to print the picture from the Search window:

Windows can’t find this picture. You might have specified the wrong location, or you have lost access to a network location. Check the location, and then try again.

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Consider the following scenario:

• You are using a computer that is running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate.
• You have a folder that only contains files that have a .bmp extension (These files are called bitmap picture files).
• You start Windows Media Center in order to add these bitmap picture files to your Picture Library and to view the files.
• You run the Media Center Library Setup Wizard, and you add the folder that has the bitmap files as a watched folder.

In this scenario, even after you add the watched folder, the bitmap picture files do not appear in the Picture Library.