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There is a nice command line tool called EXIFTOOL. It's available as a command line perl tool and as a standalone wondows executable. When named exiftool(-k).exe, ou can drop a file onto it in explorer and it will read and display the tags. Another tool which may be useful is EXIFTOOLGUI which needs exiftool in the same directory.

To batch load comments from a csv file, the following command line is used:

I used the following to read the comments loaded to the comment field earlier, then uploaded them into the XPcomment tag which is an MS Explorer tag. It was a two step process, after reading into a csv file, the csv file header was edited to change “comment” to “XPcomment”.

Here is an example heading in the csv file: