Change timestamp & long path

metal450 · Post by **metal450** » Sat Apr 08, 2023 1:40 am

Looks like this bug is also there for "Change Timestamp." If you try to Change Timestamp on a file that has a long path, it will silently fail (no error shown to user, no change made to the file). If you move the file somewhere else (shorter), it will suddenly work.

Post by **xnview** » Mon Apr 10, 2023 1:18 pm

Thanks to your detailed description I can reproduce the problem.

Post by **xnview** » Tue Apr 18, 2023 2:48 pm

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.4.4. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

metal450 · Post by **metal450** » Sat Apr 22, 2023 2:27 am

No change. Still not working for me in 1.4.4.

Post by **xnview** » Sat Apr 22, 2023 2:18 pm

how do you reproduce?

metal450 · Post by **metal450** » Sat Apr 22, 2023 3:38 pm

*Open a jpeg with a long path (i.e. any of the examples previously given)
*Switch interface to Browse mode
*Tools->Change Timestamp
*Dialog settings like this: https://jiij.cc/snaps/2023-04-22_08.38.07.png
*Click "Write"
*The Date Taken does not shift by 1hr

If you move the same image to a shorter path & try the same process, it will shift properly.

Post by **xnview** » Tue May 02, 2023 1:03 pm

i can't view the screenshot...

metal450 · Post by **metal450** » Fri May 05, 2023 12:15 am

Sorry about that, the server I use for hosting images crashed just this weekend. Here's a mirror: https://imgur.com/a/eEfwNgk

Post by **xnview** » Fri May 05, 2023 1:27 pm

I can reproduce, issue reopened. But if you use 'Create EXIF metadata', exiftool will be use and will failed to use this long path.

Post by **xnview** » Wed May 10, 2023 12:20 pm

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.4.5. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

metal450 · Post by **metal450** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:08 am

Nope. Same behavior.

Post by **xnview** » Tue May 23, 2023 4:01 pm

do you use 'Create EXIF metadata'?

metal450 · Post by **metal450** » Tue May 23, 2023 4:20 pm

Not explicitly. What I'm doing is exactly as documented in the previous post, this one: viewtopic.php?p=186987&sid=b7a83e1f105f ... a0#p186987

Post by **xnview** » Thu May 25, 2023 7:26 am

metal450 wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 4:20 pm Not explicitly. What I'm doing is exactly as documented in the previous post, this one: viewtopic.php?p=186987&sid=b7a83e1f105f ... a0#p186987

In the screenshot, 'Create EXIF metadata' is checked. Exiftool is used in this case but doesn't support long path name

metal450 · Post by **metal450** » Thu May 25, 2023 11:39 pm

Whether I leave that checked or unchecked, the behavior is the same - the exif timestamp doesn't get updated. Here's a video showing it with that checkbox unchecked: https://jiij.cc/snaps/2023-05-25_16.35.05.mp4

(Also, in all cases - with or without the checkbox - if it fails there should be a warning message, rather than silently failing. Imagine you have a bunch of photos selected, some with shorter names and some with longer ones, and you try to change timestamps. You'll be left with a state where some of them were updated and some weren't, and you'd have no indication that something went wrong).

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