> Using TP9, and I believe even earlier versions, when a file is copied it does not retain any gallery info while keywords are copied.
Yes (and I don't think it would be desirable to have copies automatically assigned to the same gallery).
> Is there any way to have the gallery retained when copying a file? The net result then would be two copies of the file in the gallery.
I don't think there is.. even when copying the file from within a gallery, the copy won't be added to the gallery.
The only workaround that comes to my mind for now, would be to assign a keyword to the file before copying, and then performing a search for the keyword afterwards. That should show both the original and the copy in a Foundlist. I'm not sure how useful that would be (TP doesn't have a file compare command), but I guess you could re-generate the copy's thumbnail image (F3) and assume that the copy is OK if that succeeds.