Database issues again

[Emil]

Be sure to have the latest version of AC installed. There has been an issue with early versions of AC 2020....

[Emil]

For storing meta data in JPEG files there exists an ISO standard. Afaik there's now such document for NEF. Programmers must use reverse engineering to...

[Emil]

Sorry, IMHO this can't be given. Camera manufacturers and software companies invent new tags all the time. Because it's so easy with exiftool, even users...

[Emil]

'Search... F3' suggested by @Robert Linsdell will not search the folders and subfolders, but the database! It will include orphaned files but not show...

[Emil]

No idea, I've never noticed such an option. But here's another question: Why doesn't AC show sub-divided thumbnails for multi page TIFFs?

[Emil]

. . . for database maintenance - a function hardly ever needed. I'd definitively prefer a 40x faster quick search....

[Emil]

Some times I cut 'n paste the content of a quarantined post into a new one and delete the older one. Although that doesn't always work either :-)...

[Emil]

There's very long list of features that need some maintenance. There even are very old features that not even are fully functional. But the company is...

[Emil]

After lots of fiddling I finally had a working database in AC Pro 2020 (Build 1419) for a few month.

But when looking into "Calendar"...

[Emil]

The list of backups is stored in the database itself - if you switch to another database the list will be different or empty. Afaik, there's no backup...

[Emil]

Most cameras use EXIF with maker notes only and do not supply data in IPTC or XMP tags. So, at time of import they are left empty.

The import...

[Emil]

Quoted from the latest Exif Standard, which is available here:


Imho you are correct, or not? The editing software isn't the "image...

[Emil]

Afaik the import routine doesn't allow this. You could try batch rename and replace "IMG_" with "".
But what are you going to...

[Emil]

To answer my own question: Nope, http was disabled in my thunderbird, I just replaced it with https. However they still don't validate.

[Emil]

At least my thunderbird can't load them any more and they don't validate.