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General Software Discussion / Re: Rotating JPEGs *without* changing modified date

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2008, 10:57 AM »

I haven't yet tested this, but I think that if you backup your photos to a CD or RAR archive in the Winter and erase them from your hard disk, then copy them again to the disk in the Summer, Windows will set the modified time equal to what it was in the Winter (which is the modified time when the files were backed up).
If you leave those files in the disk until the next hour change, Windows will then reduce the modified time by one hour.

Once again, I have no idea if this is the correct explanation for this problem, all I know is that I have a lot of pics with disagreeing dates even though I never modified them.

-Cynic (January 20, 2008, 10:30 AM)

you've got it Cynic! ... I think
I've changed computers lately and used my DVD backups to transfer my photos..
still not sure why the pattern for me of some affected/some not*, but somehow it just "sounds" right
(you can tell I'm not an extremely scientific type of guy )

* [edit] could be I burnt most in one season and the "problem" ones in the other...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Plain text editor for writers

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2008, 10:23 AM »

"F Lock"? What is this "F Lock" you speak of? I do not see anything that says this on any key of my keyboard. Nor do I see this on any spare keyboards I have. Where would this be located?

-app103 (January 20, 2008, 10:20 AM)

usually to the right of F12 key IF it's there at all -(personally I wish it wasnt here)
mine says
[F]Mode (but it's a german keyboard...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rotating JPEGs *without* changing modified date

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2008, 09:38 AM »

strange...

as I said it happened for me on a series of folders* (2nd half 2007) but not on photos taken the previous winter (2006/2007) so there didnt seem to be any logic to it...

* with TWO different cameras so I dont think I can blame the cameras... anyways I just ignored one hour differences which worked out well enough (although could also potentially cause confusion in certain situations, but I wasnt that worried about it )

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2008, 05:58 AM »

As part of the GTD implementation, new quick Add Item form is now available. CTRL-N to open it. A system-wide shortcut is also available to open it from anywhere (CTRL-ALT-N): (see attachment in previous post)

You can enter item text, decide into which folder to put it in (normally, the inbox) and put a due date if required

-PPLandry (January 11, 2008, 11:20 PM)

I'm trying to figure out what they are in the drop down list - are they all yes/no fields maybe/I think - yes, apart from "Adress"
You call them folders (thought there wasnt any of them in SQL )

What I would love to see:-
want to organise my ToDo by Projects & maybe a couple of miscellaneous or whatever
If (in this Crtl+Alt+N box) I could save stuff in ToDo grid - but also choose an item (Project) and make the note a sub-item of this item

So then when I go in to ToDo I can look at a particular project or two, or naturally I can sort in some other way if preferred

Then, even better, if I could number them in some way that if I drag an item up the line the number changes
I suspect that's not likely possible - I'm trying to think of some way that I can easily change the order of the items - in order to make them show in order of importance. eg. new item that I want to slot into place three in a list of ten items
Then I could hopefuly show the top few from each project by filtering

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2008, 05:28 AM »

hi Brandon/BrandiniMP
reading your post I was thinking - have to tell him about the other Brandon -
but see you know him already...
anyways, welcome
Tom

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General Software Discussion / Re: photo duplicate scanner

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2008, 04:04 AM »

Now I just need to find a method to RENAME all my files by the creation date. Something that reads the EXIF data?
I hate DOpus, if anyone knows how. I use DOpus as a newbie, haha, I know it has super powerful features. I'm reading up on it right now, see if that's something it can do for me.

-jammo (January 19, 2008, 10:28 PM)

jammo
[edit] got my wires crossed - see edit below [/edit]
have a look at this (but read following post too - small bug here but I would still recommend it)

here are two more tools that will be useful in this task.

• http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
• http://jpgtime.learsy.com/

-lanux128 (January 19, 2008, 12:30 PM)

that Learsy one is a thing of beauty
 (see attachment in previous post)
# no install
# simple to use -

• select files (all if you want) / click Set time from EXIF - it show the Exif time in the "New Time" column
• compare
• select those you want to change
• click Apply changes

then go off and donate to the author (donationware )
http://www.muralpix.com/donation.html

-tomos (January 19, 2008, 01:08 PM)

BIG EDIT:- this one here changes modified date back to creation/shooting date -
doesnt change the name - sorry bout that confusion

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Manage Items in Clip Board

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2008, 04:40 PM »

welcome

edit/ it's rare enough I get to answer questions round here so it's nice to get an easy one I can answer

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo change global hotkey?

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2008, 04:38 PM »

have a look at the thread that quote is from
or maybe you've seen it by now..
(Armando tells how "how well or bad Sprankle performs?")

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo change global hotkey?

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2008, 02:13 PM »

or you could try this one - [Win+S]

Sprankle is a handy keyboard activated character map. Find the character you need with leaving the keyboard.

Win+S to activate. Shift + key shows uppercase menu. Choose a number to select and it's pasted.

Can't believe I just found out about this.

Source included.

-Nighted (December 28, 2007, 10:08 AM)

edit: presumably they mean -
"Find the character you need without leaving the keyboard."

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rotating JPEGs *without* changing modified date

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2008, 01:25 PM »

strange, now I'm finding whole folders where the EXIF/shooting time and modified times are an hour out -
obviously to do with the clock change... but -
hmm,
I think it's a bug but havent pinned it down yet - when I change just the files that were rotated and then recheck to compare times - the other files (who's dates I didnt change) no longer have the hour difference

just done it again! will email the author

[edit] no idea what that was, it was the case with two different cameras, but only in pictures (roughly) taken the second half of 2007 - some unusual alignment of the planets or something... [/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rotating JPEGs *without* changing modified date

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2008, 01:08 PM »

here are two more tools that will be useful in this task.

• http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
• http://jpgtime.learsy.com/

-lanux128 (January 19, 2008, 12:30 PM)

that Learsy one is a thing of beauty



# no install
# simple to use -

• select files (all if you want) / click Set time from EXIF - it show the Exif time in the "New Time" column
• compare
• select those you want to change
• click Apply changes

then go off and donate to the author (donationware )
http://www.muralpix.com/donation.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rotating JPEGs *without* changing modified date

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2008, 12:43 PM »

thanks lanux

EDIT/ doesnt seem to be possible in ExifPro

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Manage Items in Clip Board

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2008, 12:20 PM »

open main window, select item, press delete key?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rotating JPEGs *without* changing modified date

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2008, 12:14 PM »

going off on a tangent a little:[/i][/b]- anyone know would it be easily possible to change modified datestamp back to "shooting time" date?

-tomos (January 19, 2008, 08:15 AM)

yes, it's possible with the EXIF info contained in the digital image. a stand-alone exif tool or a file-manager/image viewer with an exif plugin would do the trick.. just do search here in DC, there has been several discussions about it..

-lanux128 (January 19, 2008, 09:47 AM)

ahh, will have another look at ExifPro,
maybe....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rotating JPEGs *without* changing modified date

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2008, 08:15 AM »

thanks dirhael

it's logical to check this but somehow it had never occurred to me
it wasnt a major problem for me (ways around it) but good to know/check (as you say lanux)

off to change my DOpus 'rotate' commands - I think (checks quickly) - looks like this has only been happening since a recent reinstall of DOpus - thats not so bad...
(FTR:- I'm now using the default "Nudel-Images" toolbar -Opus#8- I think I had a different version of toolbar in last install...)

going off on a tangent a little:- anyone know would it be easily possible to change modified datestamp back to "shooting time" date?
It's not such a big deal mostly, cause sorting by the sequential naming would normally be the same as sorting by date. But sometimes not (end of one year/beginning of next)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PhotoLine - Advanced Image Editor

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2008, 01:44 AM »

wow - super!
... programme sounds very interesting

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General Software Discussion / Rotating JPEGs *without* changing modified date

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2008, 02:11 PM »

[edit] found one but I'll post anyway - would be interesting to see which progs modify date, also see edit below [/edit]

anyone know of a programme that will rotate jpegs
but not change the last modified date?

Dopus changes it
HAH found one already..
Exif Pro does the job without messing with dates

[edit] I'll post this anyway cause I've been using DOpus for years to rotate my photos without realising it changed the (modified) dates - it's been causing me some real trouble lately [/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy photo editor

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2008, 08:34 AM »

lanux,
re the "Far East":

Spoiler

got through to this
http://www.jnto.go.jp/
and
http://www.krs.co.kr/

they both have something "go" or "co" there so not sure if they qualify -
it's hard to find sites like that here!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy photo editor

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2008, 08:23 AM »

Worked for me. There you go (sorry it took so long, crappy internutz )

-scancode (January 18, 2008, 07:57 AM)

wow! thanks scancode

will check out the "Far East" launx

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy photo editor

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2008, 07:53 AM »

thanks Phil
@lanux - I had that problem before with a link you posted

here was your helpful response:-

hmm.. looks like websites without the www prefix doesn't do well on your pc.. reminds me of this thread here..

-lanux128 (June 01, 2007, 02:12 PM)

except now I can access the one I couldnt then, and now the one's I cant access have www prefix

I'm not going to loose any sleep over this...(repeat, repeat, repeat...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy photo editor

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2008, 07:41 AM »

doesnt seem to be accessible/available at the moment (homepage or softpedia)

-tomos (January 18, 2008, 02:52 AM)

that's strange, tomos because i can access the page with no problems at all.. anyway, try downloading the file to see if it works..

-lanux128 (January 18, 2008, 07:07 AM)

hmmm, nor none of them work 
wonder if this a personal thing or a european thang
can someone else check those links in Lanux's post- I just get "not accessible"

I remember this being a problem before on a different computer for me- I couldnt access sites everyone else could (someone out there thought it was non-appropriate for me ) there was an explanationout there, will look up that (it was alaxnotes if i recall correctly)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quick Web Creations - Professional 2.0 Images

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2008, 06:21 AM »

well, it's a great review,
very comprehensive as would be expected

Re thumbnails,
I get those blue lines too - but no ideas why

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy photo editor

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2008, 02:52 AM »

this came up in gHacks recently: Imagine. looks good but haven't tried it yet..

-lanux128 (January 18, 2008, 02:34 AM)

doesnt seem to be accessible/available at the moment (homepage or softpedia)

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New C# FARR Plugin: FARREnviormentVariables

« Last post by tomos on January 17, 2008, 04:46 PM »

Are you guys sure it is connected to any plugin at all? Does this behavior constantly disappear when you disable those plugins?

-vitalyb (January 17, 2008, 03:52 PM)

all clear so far with googlesuggest -
I'm fairly definite it's to do with these two or\and the ms update you mention in the SDK thread
(the plugins didnt work for me before I got that download)

edit/ XP home here too

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by tomos on January 17, 2008, 12:44 PM »

anyone else care to compare their programme with the list ?  Post #2 on page one of this thread
I will update it if you give me the info -
thanks
Tom