[digiKam-users] some folders don't show "file changed date" in album

[Daniel Bauer]

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original-files in a couple of minutes...

Am 13.08.19 um 23:36 schrieb Maik Qualmann:
> Well, digiKam-6.0.0 is pretty old again. One thing we've just fixed now, if
> sidecars are in the game, the modification date can also come from the
> sidecar. The creation date is always fetched from metadata
> (Exif.DateTimeOriginal or similar), if not present, the file creation date is
> used. So it can be the case for PNGs created by Gimp. The best you send me a
> sample and indicate which date display you expect.
> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Dienstag, 13. August 2019, 22:24:56 CEST schrieb Daniel Bauer:
>> Am 13.08.19 um 18:45 schrieb Maik Qualmann:
>>> What happens if you re-read the metadata of the image? Menu-> Item->
>>> Re-read Metadata from File
>>>
>>> Maik
>>
>> That doesn't change anything. But something is strange, as my tests show
>> - maybe you know where the problem lies:
>>
>> First of all I see now, that the date shown as creation date actually is
>> the the modification date.
>>
>> - I have an album with .png images of August 11.
>> - I open one in Gimp, edit it, export to .png overwriting the former version
>> - digikam now shows the modification date instead of the creation date (I
>> changed the setting "save creation date" checked/unchecked in the save
>> dialog in Gimp, but it didn't make any difference)
>> - I open this image in digikam editor, change size, save (again
>> overwriting): there is still no modification date
>> - I open it again in digikam editor and "save as" new file name: date
>> created and date modified are shown (both the same) - that's how it
>> should be
>>
>> It gets even stranger:
>>
>> - I have an album with .jpg files copied from the camera card
>> - some show a modified date (same as creation date), others don't
>> - now even when I open one i  editor and "save as" new file name, only
>> the modification date is shown (as creation date).
>>
>> I can send sample files in private (but they are nudes).
>>
>> I am confused :-)
>>
>>> Am Dienstag, 13. August 2019, 13:22:49 CEST schrieb Daniel Bauer:
>>>> Am 13.08.19 um 12:22 schrieb Maik Qualmann:
>>>>> The behavior is normal. The modification date is only displayed if it
>>>>> differs from the creation date.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maik
>>>>
>>>> The creation date is 11. Aug 2019. I just resized it (today differs from
>>>> 11.8.) and no modification date is shown...
>>>>
>>>>> Am Dienstag, 13. August 2019, 12:03:24 CEST schrieb Daniel Bauer:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> digikam 6.0.0 on opensuse 15.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have set the album view so that besides of the creation date also the
>>>>>> "last modified date" is shown below of the images in album view.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But in /some/ (many, but not all) folders the "last modified date" is
>>>>>> not shown.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (this happens, no matter whether I change a file within digikam - I
>>>>>> just
>>>>>> tested changing size and orientation of a file - or outside with gimp)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What can I do?
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