I will try to answer specific queries when I have more time but in the meantime, notwithstanding any “bugs” and operating system variants (intentional or unintentional) the following is what should (I believe) happen.
Please note DOPs are typically updated in a 20 second time period (a DOP update cycle) if not before and always on shutdown (if working correctly).
The first thing to point out is that PL6 can (typically) detect metadata changes automatically when an external editor makes a change but the reaction will be one of the following:-
With AS(ON) (Auto Synchronisation’ or ‘Metadata synchronisation’ selected):-
- External changes will be detected automatically in PL6 and reflected in the database, DOP and display.
- Changes via PL6 will automatically be reflected in the image metadata (embedded for JPG, TIFF, DNG and sidecar for RAW)
- With first encounter, metadata will be taken from the image (embedded or sidecar xmp etc.) except if a PL4 or earlier DOP is encountered when the ‘Rating’ (‘Rank’) and ‘Rotation’ are taken from the DOP and all other metadata is taken from the image!
With AS(OFF):-
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External changes will be detected automatically in PL6 but no automatic updates will be made to the database or DOP and the display for the image will be marked with an ‘S’ icon. The update to the metadata in PL6 will only be made after the user selects a ‘Read from image’ or selects the ‘S’ icon which will give the option to ‘Read from image’ (or ‘write to image’) and overwrite any metadata in PL6 (or the image)!
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No external changes to the image will be made automatically, they will only occur after the execution of a ‘Write to image’.
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On first encounter the following will happen
1 For a PL5 DOP on a PL5 release earlier than PL5.3.0 all metadata will be taken from the image
2 For a PL5 DOP on the PL5.3.0 and later releases all metadata will be taken from the PL5 DOP
3 For a PL6 DOP all metadata will be taken from the PL6 DOP (DOPs are typically not backwards compatible)
4 For a PL4 (or earlier) DOP the ‘Rating’ (‘Rank’) and ‘Rotation’ are taken from the PL4 (or earlier) DOP and all other metadata is taken from the image!
FRV:-
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All changes made to the metadata on offer in FRV i.e. ‘Rating’, Rotation’ (‘Orientation’) and ‘Label’ will be made to the image metadata immediately.
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No external changes made to the metadata are automatically detected by FRV, they will be detected after
1 A ‘Reload’ file is executed (on right mouse click)
2 A ‘Reload file(s)’ is executed when more than one file is selected
3 A ‘Files’/‘Reload’/‘Metadata for x Files’ or ‘Reload’/‘Metadata for ’ or ‘Reload current folder’ is executed
Or so my tests on DxPL on Win 10 have shown and are still showing on PL6!
FRV Right Mouse click Reload File:-
FRV Right Mouse Click Reload Files:-
FRV Reload from Menu:-
FRV Reload from Menu with a single file selected:-
