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[AndrewFG]

I don't know if this is due to regional settings (I am in Europe) but if I have a media file with a Date tag of (say) February 11th 2016 then it displays in MC as 11.02.2016 -- However when I use the Search box for 11.02.2016 it does not find anything. Furthermore if I use the Find & Replace function (say) Find 11.02.2016 / Replace 12.02.2016 it reports zero changes.

[JimH]

Not all fields are searchable by default.  You can change that by editing the field.  It's in the same place where you add fields.

[AndrewFG]

Not all fields are searchable by default.  You can change that by editing the field.  It's in the same place where you add fields.

Ah, that's interesting.

If you have done that once, does Date then get added persistently to the Search field?

Nevertheless, it still does not work for doing Find/Replace on Date fields.

[Matt]

Nevertheless, it still does not work for doing Find/Replace on Date fields.

Coming next build:
Changed: Made the Find & Replace tool work on the display of a field instead of the data so it works a lot better on dates.

[blgentry]

As a workaround, you can easily search for the date you want in the search box.  Then highlight all results and edit the date field in the Tag Action Window.  Not too much effort.

But nice to see Matt is fixing this too. 

Brian.

[AndrewFG]

^

My camera had the wrong Year programmed in it (2014 instead of 2016) whereas the Month and Day had been programmed correctly. So I need to just correct the Year part of my Date tags without touching the Month or the Day parts. (hopefully there were no pictures taken on a leap-year day..)

I think in this case that blgentry's proposed workaround of highlight all and change would risk changing also the Day and the Month parts of all highlighted files to the same (arbitrary) value.

Therefore I do very much welcome Matt's fix to Find/Replace which should allow me to change just the Year part of the date and leave the Month and Day parts untouched. => Many thanks Matt !!

[blgentry]

I just tested it.  It works fine.  Search for year=1985 .  Highlight all.  Open Tagging Window.  Find year.  Edit.  Done.

In my testing dates like 10/8/85 were changed properly to the same month and day, but the year was correctly changed.

Brian.

[marko]

^
My camera had the wrong Year programmed in it (2014 instead of 2016) whereas the Month and Day had been programmed correctly. So I need to just correct the Year part of my Date tags without touching the Month or the Day parts. (hopefully there were no pictures taken on a leap-year day..)

For me, this is the one feature that MC is missing, and has me repeatedly reaching for other software to correct... namely, updating the EXIF time stamp.