The Date Modified feature in the browser is apparently not working (Win)
Take a look at the images in this folder (attachment 1) from BEFORE any editing on the day.
The image _DSC0305,.dng is the 3rd from the end of the second row.
This is with the sort criterion Date Modified, ascending, on.
After being edited as the only image on August 30, 2020, the image should have moved to the end of the second row.
But it hasn't.
Attachment 2 from AFTER the editing shows an identical distribution of the images.
Attachment 3 shows the distribution in Explorer (the XMP is updated with current date and time).
This makes me in doubt whether this feature - when it works - actually sorts on the hours, minutes and seconds too, which would be great for the correct distribution of images edited on the same day.
Is this exclusively a Windows problem?
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When I try it (Windows), Date Modified appears to sort the same as Date Captured. I selected a different sort (Rating) in between the two just to make sure it was actually doing something. As far as I can tell the results are the same.
I say BUG!
Feel free to report it.
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Thank you. Reported.
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"After being edited as the only image on August 30, 2020, the image should have moved to the end of the second row."
I don't think there is anything wrong here. "Date modified" is a value inherent to the DNG file. Per definition, ON1 doesn't modify any original picture file when you edit in ON1, it only creates or modifies sidecars. So that date in DNG will never get changed.0 -
Bernd,
You are right about the principle, but then the thumb nail in the browser should be positioned according to the modification data in the sidecar.
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There is no modification date registered in the sidecar. But the sidecar has a Modified Date in its properties which is managed by the file manager.
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A file's date modified field does not actually mean the file was modified. Open a document in a text editor then close it without making any changes and it modified date will be updated. Linux has a 'touch' command to modify that date info.
To make this work correctly the program needs to track actual editing changes. It would be easy enough to add a date-time stamp when the scratch files are written to the .on1 sidecar but only if something was actually changed.
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I agree with the concept of the original poster. Sorting by "Date modified" , I would prefer (maybe even expect) that ON1 is sorting by the date that I made modifications within it's editor. But I understand that sort is currently looking at the RAW file timestamp, not the sidecar file timestamp.
I am looking for a way to select all of the images that I edited within the current folder so that I can export new JPG files. There are dozens of edited files in a folder containing hundreds of images. Scrolling and selecting each edited file is error prone. I did not put any keywords into the files that were edited, although I did click the heart icon to like the images I was planning to edit. (Because using catalogs on my system makes On1 Raw hang, I do not have cataloging enabled, and cannot use it.)
It would be nice to be able to do some or all of the following in the On1 browser:
- Sort based on the timestamp, using the sidecar file's timestamp if they exist and the RAW file's timestamp if they don't.
- Select all images that were edited (meaning that they have sidecar files).
(Edit - I removed 2 bullets for the flagging based on hearts and the number of stars after finding that information elsewhere. And thanks to Brian and Rick.)
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You can use the Advanced Search to find files that have the heart icon set (it is Liked), or by star rating. Once the search is showing just those files use Select All.
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Edit: You can remove a bullet for this too...
Can't help with the timestamp but there is a whole 'Dates' pane for that. You can already search for everything else. The Heart and Stars are easy, the edited files setting looks like this.
You can combine them if you need to. Make a preset if you're going to use that setting often.
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