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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / I can't sort by date photo originally taken

« on: 2016-12-29 08:50:14 »

> Well, you can't sort on something that isn't there and it looks like those images just don't have the required Original Date/Time in their EXIF data.

That's the thing, I think the data is there, it's just not populating the "Date Taken" field in TP.  I don't know what causes that field to populate, but rebuilding the thumbs doesn't seem to do it.  I don't know why some photos have the field populated, and other photos don't.

I've taken a screenshot of one of the files with missing Date Taken, but it shows data in all other date fields I can find.



With all that said, if 20 files have no Date Taken info, and I have Date Modified as the second sort value, why isn't it sorting by this field, which does have data?  As I stated originally, photos are displayed in an order that does not honor the Date Modified of the files.

The following shows how I have set the sorting (Date Modified and Date Modified), and the 4 photos shown have the following "Modification Date" values...

2015-02-09T14:02:57.258298
2015-02-26T08:22:20.049808
2015-02-10T17:22:32.218788
2015-02-26T12:51:07.489452



So, it just feels broken to me.  I have to assume it's just me, since I can't imagine that others wouldn't be complaining about wrong sorting; it's just such a basic part of any database or informational structure.

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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.