PicaJet User Forum

[KarstenMeyer]

Hello,
I'm just testing this fine piece of software, and it might be the best for my needs if not...

1st problem
When writing categories into the files this program changes the file date!
Ok, I know: This is the usual thing when writing to a file.
BUT: Other programs change the file date to the old value after writing to the file without problem.
Examples? Here:
ACDSee from V. 2.41 from 1999 on I think (when using lossless rotation),
EXIFER (when chaning EXIF data)
FixFoto (optional, when saving a picture)

2nd problem:
I have pictures of 1999 coming from my first digital camera Agfa EPhoto 1680. This camera didn't use EXIF, instead it used some (probably undocumented) data shown only with some special program.
When i manage them with PicaJet and write the new data to these files, this seems to go wrong.
When looking at these files with EXIFER (I think you know this program), it shows in the file list a "yes" for EXIF data, but when I look into such a file, there shows a "division by zero" up. No crash, but no data at all.

Any chance for me to use PicaJet for these pictures?

[Wizard]

[quote="KarstenMeyer"]Hello,
I'm just testing this fine piece of software, and it might be the best for my needs if not...

1st problem
When writing categories into the files this program changes the file date!
Ok, I know: This is the usual thing when writing to a file.
BUT: Other programs change the file date to the old value after writing to the file without problem.
Examples? Here:
ACDSee from V. 2.41 from 1999 on I think (when using lossless rotation),
EXIFER (when chaning EXIF data)
FixFoto (optional, when saving a picture)
[quote]

Preserving file modified date after the file was changed might raise the following issues:
- it might disturb your backup engine. Incremental backup checks the file modified dates during copying new changes.
- some programs store file modified date inside their cache (database) to reflect from outside changes. For example if a file imported into your organizer was changed from the Explorer, - your cataloguing tool compares the internal cached date with the real file modified and update the them in workspace(database) if dates are different.

[KarstenMeyer]

Thank you very much for this answer.

Yes, you are right. Keeping the file dates might give problems with other software, e.g. for Back Ups. But nevertheless you should give us this option.

I hope you understand that my two problems together might be a desaster for these files (some 1000 on my hard disk). Keeping the file date would minimize the risk.

I sent you two files from this camera, but there will be millions of pictures out there coming from other cameras without EXIF data...

[tumirnix]

Hi Karsten,
may be it helps you if you rename your pictures in a way that you
have date, time and may be a counter in the name, e.g.
20061007_004423_12.jpg

I think there are a lot of tools which can do that, some of
them use the exif information, e.g. "xnview" (OK, that does not
help you), others can take the file date, e.g. "total commander".

Best regards
Tumirnix

[KarstenMeyer]

[Wizard]

[KarstenMeyer]