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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / I can't sort by date photo originally taken
« on: 2016-12-28 21:56:32 »
This has been an issue for me for countless versions of ThumbsPlus.
All I want is to sort photos in a folder by the date they were originally taken. Not by any of the other 4 or 5 date options (created, modified, etc).
Sadly, the date taken field seems to be empty for the majority of my photos. I can see the date in one of the other date fields, but they are not fields I can choose to sort by. I've tried the "Modify File Info..." option to try to populate this field from the exif information, but this doesn't populate the date taken field. I've tried to look at the XML settings, but the 'fill' field doesn't seem to offer date taken as a field that can be populated from another field.
But, since most of my photos don't have a date in that field, they are all "equal" so I would expect the secondary sort to work, so I picked the only other date field offered in this dropdown, (date modified), but that doesn't sort right either. I can see one file with a date of 12/9/15, the next with 12/26/15 then the next goes back to 12/9/15. How can this just not sort right?
I imagine that many/most people would want to see their photos in date order, at least occasionally, so I just can't see how this doesn't just work; right out of the box.
I've literally spent hours trying to do something so terribly simple, I feel I must be doing it wrong, but alas; I'm giving up.
Unless someone can show me a way to sort by the date my photo was originally taken, without fail, I have to move to another program. I really like most everything about TP, but this is so painfully annoying, I can no longer deal with it.
All I want is to sort photos in a folder by the date they were originally taken. Not by any of the other 4 or 5 date options (created, modified, etc).
Sadly, the date taken field seems to be empty for the majority of my photos. I can see the date in one of the other date fields, but they are not fields I can choose to sort by. I've tried the "Modify File Info..." option to try to populate this field from the exif information, but this doesn't populate the date taken field. I've tried to look at the XML settings, but the 'fill' field doesn't seem to offer date taken as a field that can be populated from another field.
But, since most of my photos don't have a date in that field, they are all "equal" so I would expect the secondary sort to work, so I picked the only other date field offered in this dropdown, (date modified), but that doesn't sort right either. I can see one file with a date of 12/9/15, the next with 12/26/15 then the next goes back to 12/9/15. How can this just not sort right?
I imagine that many/most people would want to see their photos in date order, at least occasionally, so I just can't see how this doesn't just work; right out of the box.
I've literally spent hours trying to do something so terribly simple, I feel I must be doing it wrong, but alas; I'm giving up.
Unless someone can show me a way to sort by the date my photo was originally taken, without fail, I have to move to another program. I really like most everything about TP, but this is so painfully annoying, I can no longer deal with it.