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#61
General Discussion and Questions / Re: Thumbnail corruption of so...
Last post by Mario - June 30, 2025, 09:08:03 AMAre you using WIC or LibRaw with IMatch?
#62
General Discussion and Questions / Metadata Write Back to avoid ...
Last post by HG - June 30, 2025, 08:50:20 AMHello, I'm asked to write back photoshop time stamps in meta data. Because I don't have photoshop why I should write back this data? I guess I'm asked because this is a default value configured somewhere in the system. Does anybody know, how and where to switch off just for photoshop? Writes back for xmp and exif is okay. Thank you in advance, HGF
#63
General Discussion and Questions / error with jpeg-marker/tag
Last post by sinus - June 30, 2025, 08:44:18 AMI have this message from time to time, see below.
It comes from Photoshop, means, I cannot open the file in Photoshop.
I edit all photos from raw (nef) to jpg (rarely tif).say out of 500 jpgs this message comes.
Questions:
does anyone know where the error was, I think more likely in Photoshop, eg when saving. Or could it have occurred in IMatch?
Can I find such damaged images within IMatch?
And could I fix them with IMatch or if not, can it be corrected at all?
It's not super important now, but if the rare 'phenomenon' occurs, it can happen that it's just an important image. but of course, I still have the original draw, backups and so on.
It comes from Photoshop, means, I cannot open the file in Photoshop.
I edit all photos from raw (nef) to jpg (rarely tif).say out of 500 jpgs this message comes.
Questions:
does anyone know where the error was, I think more likely in Photoshop, eg when saving. Or could it have occurred in IMatch?
Can I find such damaged images within IMatch?
And could I fix them with IMatch or if not, can it be corrected at all?
It's not super important now, but if the rare 'phenomenon' occurs, it can happen that it's just an important image. but of course, I still have the original draw, backups and so on.
#64
General Discussion and Questions / Thumbnail corruption of some D...
Last post by robbo56gbr - June 29, 2025, 10:23:25 PMI will explain the scenario where I came to see the above topic.
I have Canon R5 Mk2 and shoot Raw (CR3). I used darktable as my raw editor, currently it does not recognise these CR3s as they have not yet supported it.
To get around this I use Adobe DNG convertor to create DNG copies of my CR3 raws. These DNGs are buddy files to my raws in iMatch. All the files in a batch convert with no error. I can view these DNGs in Windows File explorer ( Windows I think just displays the embedded jpeg as the resolution has shrunk)
Also to note Darktable can happily see and edit all the DNGs without a problem
However when the DNGs are imported to Imatch, usually at least one or 2 in a batch of up to 100 will have their thumbnail corrupted with horizontal banding like a sliced up image. At first I thought the DNG itself was corrupted but I have proved this is not the case. I also just discovered that by a Forced update Shift Ctrl F5, the thumbnails come back corrected.
So ultimately no problem, but I wonder what may be causing this. It is repeatable
Thanks
I have Canon R5 Mk2 and shoot Raw (CR3). I used darktable as my raw editor, currently it does not recognise these CR3s as they have not yet supported it.
To get around this I use Adobe DNG convertor to create DNG copies of my CR3 raws. These DNGs are buddy files to my raws in iMatch. All the files in a batch convert with no error. I can view these DNGs in Windows File explorer ( Windows I think just displays the embedded jpeg as the resolution has shrunk)
Also to note Darktable can happily see and edit all the DNGs without a problem
However when the DNGs are imported to Imatch, usually at least one or 2 in a batch of up to 100 will have their thumbnail corrupted with horizontal banding like a sliced up image. At first I thought the DNG itself was corrupted but I have proved this is not the case. I also just discovered that by a Forced update Shift Ctrl F5, the thumbnails come back corrected.
So ultimately no problem, but I wonder what may be causing this. It is repeatable
Thanks
#65
General Discussion and Questions / Re: f(x) before category in pa...
Last post by axel.hennig - June 29, 2025, 10:17:26 PMIf you mean something like this
then this is a category-formula. Look into "Properties -> Formula" to see how it is calculated.
Or see here: Category Formulas
then this is a category-formula. Look into "Properties -> Formula" to see how it is calculated.
Or see here: Category Formulas
#66
General Discussion and Questions / f(x) before category in panels
Last post by Kucera - June 29, 2025, 09:44:28 PMHello,
my Categories and Filter panels show f(x) between the check-off box and the category name, just for some categories – what does it mean and how did it get there? Could not find anything in the online help or by searching here, sorry.
Regards, Emil
my Categories and Filter panels show f(x) between the check-off box and the category name, just for some categories – what does it mean and how did it get there? Could not find anything in the online help or by searching here, sorry.
Regards, Emil
#67
General Discussion and Questions / Re: Send to viewer from Files ...
Last post by Mario - June 29, 2025, 04:06:46 PMQuote from: fisketjon on June 29, 2025, 03:34:27 PMUnder Relation definitions Canon Versioning is set to Use this version "As Visual". Where can I see the Viewer setting you mention?Click <S> to open the Smart Menu in the Viewer and check the "Visual Proxy" tile.
See Visual Proxy in the Viewer help for details.
#68
General Discussion and Questions / Re: Send to viewer from Files ...
Last post by fisketjon - June 29, 2025, 03:34:27 PMUnder Relation definitions Canon Versioning is set to Use this version "As Visual". Where can I see the Viewer setting you mention?
#69
General / Re: IMatch freezes when readin...
Last post by Mario - June 29, 2025, 02:58:05 PMWe need to learn more to understand this. I've repeated my 50 RAW propagation test on my notebook and in a fresh Windows 11 container. The notebook was faster (newer SSD) and the virtualized Windows machine took almost 2 minutes (write-back via network bridge). But all completed, no hang. 100K file test database with plenty of categories. Tried to make this as similar as possible to your case.
#70
General / Re: IMatch freezes when readin...
Last post by thrinn - June 29, 2025, 02:07:35 PMThank you, Mario, for taking time to analyze this. I will try to track this behaviour down or at least find some influencing factors. Unfortunately I don't have much time today, so it might take some days until I can come back with more information.
Regarding hardware, I will double check, but both Z: (where the IMatch DB and my pictures are stored) and C: are SSDs. C: is a Kingston 1TB SSD, Z: is a Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB. Nothing fancy, but also not a bottleneck so far. I also had a look at the Windows Ressource Monitor during my tests. I could not see any SSD under heavy load.
I will first try to reproduce it with a test database. I don't want to make to many changes back and forth in my main DB.
Regarding hardware, I will double check, but both Z: (where the IMatch DB and my pictures are stored) and C: are SSDs. C: is a Kingston 1TB SSD, Z: is a Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB. Nothing fancy, but also not a bottleneck so far. I also had a look at the Windows Ressource Monitor during my tests. I could not see any SSD under heavy load.
I will first try to reproduce it with a test database. I don't want to make to many changes back and forth in my main DB.