I have a couple thousand home video clips I had organized by adding Ratings, People Tags, Text Tags etc using Windows Live Photo Gallery....

The prime reason for me choosing Photo Gallery vs Google Picasa and other software was that the meta data was supposed to be stored in the individual files.  And this seemed to always work in my early testing... at least with photos.

I recently tried connecting my Xbox 360 to the PC using Media Center over wi-fi and it kept locking up...

I presumed it was because I had shared that folder of all the video clips and it was to much to refresh over wifi.

So I removed that folder set from the Library and I think it must have also removed it from Photo gallery.

When I re-linked that folder system to Photo Gallery, I noticed all the ratings were gone.

Can someone explain what meta data is attached to the files what is stored outside each individual file?

I was able to duplicate this problem very easily by assigning ratings and tags to the same videos and then take that library out of the Gallery Rollup and then bring the folder back in.

Does it do that for all files or just some?

Is it limited to the MTS or certain other types of videos?

Does removing a folder from the Gallery View wipe everything or just some things?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!