How do I read the comments written on my photos?

[Vicky]

Years ago(poss 10 yrs) I scanned all my dad's Koren War photos.
I used Microsoft Photo to label them and put comments on them.

ex: 1953 - Dad with his army buddies -- see comments​

The Comment Section was on the bottom of software. I typed his story and the names of each vet as he remembered them. This was to preserve my dad's history, his life.

Now, with the new MS photo software I can't read the comments I wrote yrs ago.
How do I get them back? How can I view these comments I entered years ago?

These comments told the story of him in the service.
Can you help me?
I don't want to lose the stories behind the photos.

 

[Nathan]

Right-click on the photo: In File Explorer, right-click the image file you want to comment on.
Select Properties: Choose "Properties" from the context menu.
Details Tab: Navigate to the "Details" tab within the Properties window.
Comments Field: You'll find a "Comments" or "Description" field where you can add your text.
Microsoft Community

 

[Tommy]

This is the dirty downside of digital. For all practical purposes, digital data only exists while the means to recover it remain readily available. I have documents on old 5.5" floppy disks that I have no practical way of recovering, yet I also have 100 year old photos and 200 year old letters that, with reasonable care, could last virtually forever.

 

[dilettante]

 

[MACKTEXAS]

For that very reason, I copy and paste photos and relative text into text documents which are less susceptible to software changes and save them to USB drives.

 

[David777]

Would be trivial for this command line person to read any element of exif data within image file headers. With exiftool, I could easily just read say the filename and comment elements with image file headers and have such piped into a txt file. If a folder had say 200 image files, could do that with a single command. Then could dump the resulting file of one line per image file with tab separators into a formatted MS Excel file. I posted a thread on exiftool recently that any others on this board might investigate themselves on using. Exiftool is not software for novices.