Yeah, I did have that problem in the past with the comment data being demolished if I transferred the files with said comments onto my NTFS formatted external hard drive, though strangely, I’m still able to manually write a new comment on those files after the transfer.

In other words, what I find is that transferring a file with a comment from one ext4 drive to another ext4 drive retains the comment data, but transferring it from one ext4 drive to an NTFS drive deletes it, though it still allows me to rewrite a replacement comment regardless.

I’ve solved my issue by installing Dolphin, which allows me to see the comments now, and updated my post.

Thanks so much for all the suggestions. I couldn’t figure out how to use the command because it was giving me errors (which is probably just something I did wrong). But I’ll try to figure that out for the sake of learning.

What did work for me, was downloading Dolphin (it looks so messes up in Cosmic though, lol) and the comments are absolutely there, thank God! So now I can recover them and I think I’m going to try to find an alternative solution for making these records that works easily across distros (because I don’t plan to stick with Pop! forever)

Thanks, I’ll try to do this tomorrow. Do you think that loading Manjaro KDE or any other distro using KDE into a VM, and connecting my drive with the files to the VM would allow me to view the comments just as I previously could using KDE?

Yes, I was mainly using it for photos and videos. I wrote a lot of text in old photos from when I was a very young child or baby in order to record as many memories I still have in relation to them as possible, so these comments mean a lot.

I haven’t played it yet, but a game called Veloren looks really good, and I’ve heard great things about it.