I'm hoping that v12 will bring the likes of thumbnail size sliders, preservation, creation and edit of EXIF data. I find it harsh that after editing a file using MC's image editor, all tags are lost, including the files date. It's harsh because MC, by design, uses the files date to fill the [album] field. this is a very neat feature that allows us to quickly search for groups of files based around their [album] tags. Editing files using MC's internal editor causes the album tag to be changed to the date the file was saved, which in turn orphans that file from the rest of its group. At the moment, I find MC a competant image organiser, but use other software for editing to safeguard original file and tags.
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I assume you mean EXIF tags are lost, not MC's library or internal JPG tags. Please start a thread with details. This shouldn't be happening. MC reads EXIF tags but doesn't write them. It stores a tag in the JPG header in a location devoted to MC's use, but according to the JPG standard. I believe PhotoShop does something similar.
No, I mean
all tags are lost. Well, perhaps not quite all....
the data is still in the library database. all of it except for the [album] tag and the [name], which have been automatically replaced with the edited files' date and time of creation, and the actual filename, respectively.
You can see this very easily...
right click an image file (for the full effect, make it one where you've changed the default [album] and [name] fields.)
go to: "image > edit image.."
make a change (I used the crop tool)
on the editor menu, click "File > Save"
close the editor
now, open the filetype info window and the tag info window.
click away from, then back to, the edited image to refresh the windows in case they were already open.
if you then check the tag info window you should notice that all other database entries are saved except for [album], [name] and date/time of creation.
and this shot shows the net result as MC overwrites both the name field and the album field....
if I press F5, the selected image will be dropped from this view, meaning that I need to go track this file down to correct its tags, and so return it to its rightful group.
of course, by the time I realised this was happening, my library was a riddled with orphan images whose library tags had been altered, and whose file tags had been removed, just by cropping an image, or removing some red eye using MC's editor.
It took a long time to repair my library. I was a little miffed at having permanantly lost the original date and time of some photos becuase of this, and is the reason why I won't use MC's internal editor at this time.