Build 114

[sinus]

Hi Mario
Downloaded and no problems to download or installing.
Thanks for your new beta! 
Markus

[Mario]

Thanks for the feedback.
Working hard!

[awoxx]

"The film strip panel can now be positioned at any edge..."

very smooth and full scalable. And you can scroll independent the film strip or the full Pictures.
Nice one, thanks. I am working with Olympus (4/3) on a 16/10 NEC...

Regards
Andreas

[ChrisMatch]

Thanks for the build - we can only imagine how long your days are - thanks. 
One question - is it only me or is the list of solved bugs not yet in the archive?

[bonsai]

Downloaded and installed without any problems.
No double entries anymore and GPS data are back again
Thank you for your hard work Mario!

[sinus]

Thanks for the build - we can only imagine how long your days are - thanks. 
One question - is it only me or is the list of solved bugs not yet in the archive?

Hi Chris,
here too. I think, Mario has not yet uploaded the solved-bugs-list.
He has really a lot to do. 

[mgm1965]

Downloaded and installed without any problems.

[Gerd]

Hi,

also here: downloading and install -> no problem ... but starting ... now busy more than one hour "rebuilding search engine". The performance-indicator stays at the last 10%, buit I think, with my 145.000 pics, it will need some time ... I will wait ...

Regards
Gerd

[Mario]

Build 114 ships with a new version of ExifTool. This means there are new tags and related information to incorporate into the database.
Afterwards IMatch 5 has to rebuild the search engine to use these new tags. This is a very hard disk-intensive process.

145,000 files is quite a big database for a Beta test. Maybe you can work quicker and test faster when you use a smaller database for the Beta?
145,000 files is a production database which already exceeds the capacities of many of the other DAM products out there. IMatch 5 can handle it, but there is no free lunch.

If you have that database on a regular hard disk, have you considered a SSD or a cheap USB 3.0 stick?
I just tried one for testing (15 € for the USB 3.0 card, and 30 € for high-speed USB 3.0 stick with 32 GB). The performance is much faster than on regular hard disks...amazing.

[Gerd]

Hi Mario,

yes, I know, it's a lot of pics 

But now, after 2h, all is ok and back in IM5.  I have learned to be patient ...

So now I have to refresh the data-driven Sample-Cats, but that is done in some minutes! 

Regards
Gerd

[Mario]

IMatch by default automatically refreshes data-driven categories in the background when the IMatch user interface is idle. You can refresh them manually if you need them right now. Again, retrieving and processing the metadata of 145,000 files for each of the sample categories requires a lot of data shuffling and disk accesses.

[cytochrome]

Great update, this is much better...

The Metadata entry now works just fine: no data loss on use of templates, GPS data stay there too, no more duplicate or triplicate author. Even the irritating hang on Updating seems to be gone.

And the automatic propagation to versions  works also!!! Gracious god...

I tested it on several folders of NEF and also of RW2, which are more tricky and "experimental". All seems well.

Thank you Mario

Francis

[ianrr]

Thanks for the update Mario  ... 

On installing, had a minor problem that may indicate a minor bug or problem with my machine regarding Exif Tool   ...  The following screenshots tell it all.

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[Mario]

IMatch usually closes all exiftool.exe processes it creates when it closes. Even if this does not work for whatever reason, the exiftool.exe processes don't harm and are removed when Windows is rebooted the next time.

The only problem with that is when you in such case run the installer, which has to replace exiftool.exe shipped with IMatch with a new version. This cannot work when exiftool.exe is still running. The installer tries to close these processes (and is usually able to without too much fuzz). In your case this also failed, which seems to indicate a severe case 'handing' on part of exiftool.exe or the PERL runtime system it is using.

In such rare cases, either log-off / log-in or a reboot solves the problem.

[ianrr]

Hi Mario, thanks for the info. I updated my laptop today and it went perfectly fine. The main difference probably is that I put to "sleep" often my Home machine as opposed to shutting it down like I I do with the laptop. Your explanation
makes me see the point of shutting it down more often.

I am very pleased with the way IM5 works  ... awesome programming !!!

[Mario]

Rebooting once a week is a must, to clean out all the rubbish. And to let Windows install pending updates.
Else I also use standby or hibernate (no power consumption) myself.

[Gerd]

Hi Mario,

if you use hibernate, do you close IM before or do you let it open? Or, if it is dangerous to let IM open, is there a "safe position" to stay in IM, where nothing can hapen, if an "unhibernate" crashes?

Regards
Gerd

[Mario]

I always leave it open. I have sometimes problems with other apps, but never with IMatch.