The only thing I really use acdsee for these days is changing the "Date/Time original" exif values where they are incorrect.
Once I do that, autoimport picks up the external changes and updates the [Date] field accordingly.
It's quite frustrating that MC is not able to do this task, which must surely be one of the most common problems with digital cameras.
Yes, you can fix the date within MC, but, naturally, as soon as the photos are viewed anywhere outside of MC, the dates are still wrong.
I get many photos from my daughter, and no matter how many times I tell her, she does not set the date on her camera, so the date in her EXIF tags is always 01/01/2004
Irritating! (my daughter, not MC
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Another place that the ability to update the EXIF date tag would be handy, is for old photo prints that have been scanned into the PC. MC gives these photos the windows Date Modified date, and again, I need to use acdsee to add and EXIF original date tag.
-marko.