I just started using XnView and I have a couple of questions:
Does the "Sort by EXIF Date" feature use the "Date modified" information? (As opposed to the "Date Created" and "Date Digitized" fields?)
What does the "Change Timestamp" feature really do? It looks to change the "Date Created" field in XnView, but I don't see that info in the EXIF data. Is it just used by Windows when you actually create the file (i.e. copy from the camera, or from another disk, etc?)
The reason I'm asking these questions is that I typically do some post processing on some of my camera images. However, once I do this, when I browse the file in XnView (sorted by EXIF Date), the modified images are now at the end of the sort order instead of where the original would have been.
Checking the EXIF data, the"Date Modified" field has changed to the save date. (This is why I'm guessing that XnView uses this field) I tried using the "Change timestamp" feature, but this doesn't seem to affect the sort order- it just changes the "Date Created" field, which I don't see in the EXIF data. I finally had to use Exifer to copy the original EXIF data over the modified file to get the correct sort order. Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks in advance for any insights,
J
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) wrote:NB : These are taken under WinXP, while I discovered the problem under W2k, I don't feel the OS changes it much but will check it on monday.
