# Image metadata stripping
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-metadata-stripping/66732
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 24, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-metadata-stripping/66732 "2017-07-24T17:35:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Patrick\_David](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Patrick_David)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-metadata-stripping/66732/1 "2017-07-24T17:35:42Z")
I understand the reasons for wanting to strip metadata out of images generally, but I was wondering if there might be a way to _allow_ us to keep the metadata?
The reason I ask is that we ([discuss.pixls.us](http://discuss.pixls.us)) are primarily a (Free Software) photography-oriented community. Many of us tend to keep information in the metadata that we’d like to stay intact:
- copyright information
- photographic parameters as a learning exercise for others
- processing information that gets embedded by other software
- colorspace information
- and other reasons…
is there a way to toggle _not_ stripping metadata on images that are uploaded? (I looked and haven’t found a setting yet personally).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-metadata-stripping/66732/2 "2017-07-25T01:54:48Z")
This is a use case we are interested in. Could we have a site setting that does not strip image metadata @zogstrip to start?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2017, 9:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-metadata-stripping/66732/4 "2017-09-03T09:17:40Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Site setting for “strip image metadata”](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-setting-for-strip-image-metadata/69276)
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-metadata-stripping/66732/5 "2017-09-03T09:18:34Z")
2 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Site setting for “strip image metadata”](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-setting-for-strip-image-metadata/69276)
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-metadata-stripping/66732/7 "2017-07-26T16:00:40Z")
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