Renaming bug
Hi,
first of all sorry for my english.
I downloaded Expression Media 2 demo version and updated tuo sp2 to try before buy. Testing the options I tried to use the rename edit. I'll post an image as it would be clearer than my words.
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/3927/em2bug.jpg
I think there's a problem about dating method. As you can see in image datas (left) my picture has been taken (Data creazione) in 06/02/2010 (February 6th, 2010). I decided to use this data as a rename part. I set the date (Data:) to appear in AAMMGG form, that in Italian states for "Anno" (Year), "Mese" (Month), "Giorno" (Day), but as you can see in the rename preview the date appears as 100602 (June 2nd, 2010. It's not possible I've taken this picture tomorrow! 😂 ) instead of 100206.
Can anyone tell me how to fix without setting the date as AAGGMM (that would give the right form in the renamed file but could be confusing to use)?
first of all sorry for my english.
I downloaded Expression Media 2 demo version and updated tuo sp2 to try before buy. Testing the options I tried to use the rename edit. I'll post an image as it would be clearer than my words.
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/3927/em2bug.jpg
I think there's a problem about dating method. As you can see in image datas (left) my picture has been taken (Data creazione) in 06/02/2010 (February 6th, 2010). I decided to use this data as a rename part. I set the date (Data:) to appear in AAMMGG form, that in Italian states for "Anno" (Year), "Mese" (Month), "Giorno" (Day), but as you can see in the rename preview the date appears as 100602 (June 2nd, 2010. It's not possible I've taken this picture tomorrow! 😂 ) instead of 100206.
Can anyone tell me how to fix without setting the date as AAGGMM (that would give the right form in the renamed file but could be confusing to use)?
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You asked it to show Year Month Day. That is what it is doing. You appear to be looking for Year Day Month in your example. 0 -
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If the day was February 6th, 2010, as in my case, the date should appear as 10(year)02(month)06(Day). Instead as you can see it is 10(year)06(day)02(month) 🙄
In fact as in Italy we usually have date in form GG/MM/AA, using AAMMGG should give back the date back to front
06/02/2010 ----> 100206 (exactly like in "data acquisizione" in exif data where the date is already written in AAAA/MM/GG form)
Look at my image and see that instead it's given back as 100602 in file name (that in AAMMGG form is June 2nd, 2010 and that's not the right date of my picture).0 -
I suspect the issue stems from the difference between European Camera Metadata being written and U.S software reading the data. The date format for US software be default is Month/Day/Year. As such the metadata you have is read appropriately as June 02, 2010. 0 -
Thank you for your reply.
In my ideas I suspected an impossible translation mistake but so... are you telling me that the software is not localized even if I've downloaded the Italian version to try? That sounds too absurd to be real, even more absurd than my thoughts 😕
What looks really strange to me is that I didn't find anyone reporting that issue on the web and EM2 is not properly a "new" software to discover. I suppose that a lot of pepole have been using EM2 in Italy and all over the world and whatever I suspected should fall.
So, isn't there any kind of fix?
I think I'll try to install again the software, maybe downloading another demo version from microsoft site.
I don't want to bother you. Thank you again.0 -
Claus I do not know what is happening there with yours, but it works fine with mine using YYMMDD.
http://www.pbase.com/paulsilkphotography/image/125171747.jpg0 -
ClauS
It's a bug. It's probably related (as said before) to the EXIF date decoding format difference between U.S. and European style. I have not tested on more "European" releases other than Italian one, however.
It cannot be fixed from a "user" point of view.
Please send me a message on massimonovi@hotmail.com for more info about it.
Massimo Novi0 -
ClauS
The bug is not present in (for example) the French version. The date format of the french release is the same european one (like the italian) but in this case is formatted correctly.
Seems the bug is only on the italian release.
Massimo Novi0 -
Thank you OlyPaul and manovi.
It's clear that the problem is not related to the date itself (i.e the difference between American and European style) but to the italian localization. Well, I don't want to try all the other european releases to see whether is present or not as I'm Italian and I just need the Italian version. Anyway yesterday I've tested the english and italian ones on another pc (to be sure that it wasn't related anyway to my first machine hardware or software) with the results that you've already reported.
Now that it seems clear that there has been a localization mistake, I think that just a little patch would fix it, if you want.0
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