Beardy's plug-ins

[Photo_op]

BeardyDNGupdate is quite crude right now, but helps a bit. I can see one of two issues.

One is that when you save previews, LR updates the edit time and that can be a second or two later than the file modification time. I'm unsure how big this issue is, or why that's happening
Anyway, I thought I'd show the progress and invite ideas.

John

John-that's exactly what I'm seeing. The 1 second difference in the times is causing photos to show up in the Smart Collection after the update has been performed. The Smart Collection is constructed with the Rule-

DNG update is Save.

--Dave

[Photo_op]

John-do you have access to the LR Metadata item "Metadata Status" that appears directly below File Type in the Library Metadata panel. If so, rather than deal with time and date info, your Save could be triggered on LR's "Has been changed".

-- Dave

[johnbeardy]

Good question, Dave. That was exactly what I had hoped, and there doesn't seem to be a way. The time comparison could still work, but would need to be less sensitive - eg detecting a difference greater than a minute or an hour.

John

[Photo_op]

The time comparison could still work, but would need to be less sensitive - eg detecting a difference greater than a minute or an hour.

John

John- I'm thinking > 6 hours. Similar to LR backup option at start up, I could theoretically run the plug-in at startup each day (and assume 6 hours of sleep) and pick up those DNGs that I may have adjusted the previous day. On the other hand, minute or hour would seem to work, especially if I was faithful and ran the plug-in each day/night before I ended adjustments.

On another thought, I tried looking at a DNG with Exiftool, but could not find the IPTC entry for "Has been changed". If you are using the SDK (I assume for LR) maybe one of your sources (read:Adobe) could volunteer a solution (or location) for extracting that "Status".

Anyway, thanks for listening.

--Dave

[johnbeardy]

Dave

How would you envisage that 6 hour or whatever would be better than a smart collection with edit date is today / yesterday?

In this plug-in, I'm not using exiftool at all (though I am in another) and the "Has been changed" information exists purely within LR. Unlike other fields, it isn't exposed to access via the SDK, which forces me to do a comparison of the edit date and the file modified date.

John

[johnbeardy]

Dave

As you use exiftool on Mac, I'll ask you this.

I’m writing a Lightroom plug-in which uses exiftool to write back to the file (eg the coloured label for iView/ExMedia) and need to test the command lines that the plug-in generates. In Windows, I just create a *.bat file or go into the cmd prompt. But what are the equivalents in Mac?

John

[Photo_op]

Sorry John-I'm a newbie with ExifTool. Downloaded it to work on this update thingy. May take me a while before I begin to write to a file.

--Dave