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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I’m reading the SQLite database of Adobe Lightroom (SQLite).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I want to process the AdditionalMetadata table, see below, the XMP field, which may be 3000 chars long.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>When retrieving the contents of this field I only get 255.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>Question:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>What should I do to get the full content of this field.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>BTW, I cannot change the database, because it comes from Adobe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>This is the code I use:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>============ Start code<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> SQLite3Connection1.DatabaseName:='Test_v5.lrcat';<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> SQLite3Connection1.Transaction:=SQLTransaction1;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> SQLTransaction1.Database:=SQLite3Connection1;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> SQLQuery1.Database:=SQLite3Connection1;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> SQLQuery1.Transaction:=SQLTransaction1;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> SQLQuery1.SQL.Text:='Select id_local, xmp from Adobe_AdditionalMetadata';<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> SQLQuery1.Open;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> SQLQuery1.Next;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> i := SQLQuery1.FieldByName('id_local').AsInteger;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> ShowMessage(IntToStr(i));<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> myText := SQLQuery1.FieldByName('xmp'). as TBlobField;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>// Here I only get 255 chars<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> ShowMessage(myText);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>================ End code<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>CREATE TABLE Adobe_AdditionalMetadata (<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> id_local INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> id_global UNIQUE NOT NULL,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> additionalInfoSet INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> embeddedXmp INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> externalXmpIsDirty INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> image INTEGER,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> incrementalWhiteBalance INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=DE>internalXmpDigest,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE> isRawFile INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE> </span><span lang=EN-US>lastSynchronizedHash,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> lastSynchronizedTimestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT -63113817600,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> metadataPresetID,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> metadataVersion,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> monochrome INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> xmp NOT NULL DEFAULT ''<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>