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#51
General Discussion and Questions / Re: Files not showing
Last post by Mario - June 12, 2025, 09:11:24 AMThe log file contains over 50 warnings/notices from ExifTool. Many of them are about skipping some large blocks of data (which is OK) and about 10 are about invalid data detected in DNG files in A:\IMPORT\trust\1...
You can search the log for W> to find the file names.
What I've also found are many log entries for "Skipping cache creation for file".
Which is very unusual. It seems you have set a maximum file size for thumbnails/cache files in Edit menu > Preferences > Cache and all files IMatch tries to index are larger than the maximum file size you allow. IMatch thus is forced to skip these files, not creating thumbnails or cache images.
If you want IMatch to create thumbnails and cache images, set the "Maximum file size" to 0 (default) or a size larger than the files you process. This setting only exists for some environments, to prevent IMatch from trying to index TIFF files or videos with gigabytes in size. Not for normal operations.
You can search the log for W> to find the file names.
What I've also found are many log entries for "Skipping cache creation for file".
Which is very unusual. It seems you have set a maximum file size for thumbnails/cache files in Edit menu > Preferences > Cache and all files IMatch tries to index are larger than the maximum file size you allow. IMatch thus is forced to skip these files, not creating thumbnails or cache images.
If you want IMatch to create thumbnails and cache images, set the "Maximum file size" to 0 (default) or a size larger than the files you process. This setting only exists for some environments, to prevent IMatch from trying to index TIFF files or videos with gigabytes in size. Not for normal operations.
#52
Workflow / Re: An example: Where poor key...
Last post by Stenis - June 12, 2025, 02:01:01 AMI think you ought to read this tread carefully to see just how lost many DXO Photolab PictureLibrary users are today when it comes to their efforts to cope with the problems DXO has not managed to solve when it comes to metadatamanagement. I think DXO and Photools has a lot to gain from a life more in symbiosis than today because I see a lot of synergies there.
https://forum.dxo.com/t/some-database-querying-tools-that-you-might-find-useful/50526/33
This is about how both Adobe (Lightroom) with all its billions and market leader and industry standard software vendors like CameraBits (PhotoMechanic) have failed to solve the bottleneck problems that you a one man company have solved with iMatch. It is a comment on what is always said in apologies for DXO been a small company as an explanation for not fixing the problems the users are having with Photolab PictureLibrary. This is about being a small company this is about commitment and skills that are lacking and that goes even for a giant like Adobe.
https://forum.dxo.com/t/some-database-querying-tools-that-you-might-find-useful/50526/52
This is about how the productivity problems with the Descriptions and Keywords can be solved in a proper and holistic way with iMatch without leaving the users to turn to emergency solutions like the tread owner Freixas is trying to solve with SQL-queries or Joanna is trying to solve with the keyword-application she has made herself which she is running in parallell with Photolab!! to solve the problems Photolab hasn´t solved.
https://forum.dxo.com/t/some-database-querying-tools-that-you-might-find-useful/50526/54
This is really a call for you Mario and DXO to do something together (sell bundles - get in synch) and for the users that takes metadata serious but are stuck with Photolab´s poor PictureLibrary and apparently don´t know about anything else than Photolab or with Lightroom for that matter.
The reason I write this is that you really have a golden opportunity when so many are realy pissed with Adobe of a lot of reasons now to offer a joint scalable solution with Photolab AND iMatch that solves all the problems the users are trying to solve at DXO Forums. Nothing beats Photolab on image quality and I don´t think anything beats iMatch today as a real personal or workgrouo DAM that has all possibilities to scale all the way to be used as a front end for people working with corporate DAM-systems just because iMatch unlike for example PhotoMechanic (still works internally with just IPTC) is built on a solid base of XMP. There is also nothing that works and synchs better together today than Photolab and iMatch and since there are so many that have migrated to Photolab just because of being a non-subscription solution even iMatch fits into that offer being non-subscription too.
I have myself upgraded Photolab every year since 10 years just to support it despite I have to subscribe even to Capture One too since there are things that are really difficult to in Photolab. I need both. I want Photolab to survive because of the qualities it also have (image quality). I also want iMatch to survive because Photolab and iMatch is the best combo there is for me and many others today I think. They are an almost perfect match in order to scale Photolab to the next level for a reasonable cost. They have all to gain through a life in symbiosis and I also think it is sad so many are stuck there with Lightroom when there are better alternatives. There is an opening especially now when so many are so deeply disappointed in Adobe of so many reasons.
https://forum.dxo.com/t/some-database-querying-tools-that-you-might-find-useful/50526/33
This is about how both Adobe (Lightroom) with all its billions and market leader and industry standard software vendors like CameraBits (PhotoMechanic) have failed to solve the bottleneck problems that you a one man company have solved with iMatch. It is a comment on what is always said in apologies for DXO been a small company as an explanation for not fixing the problems the users are having with Photolab PictureLibrary. This is about being a small company this is about commitment and skills that are lacking and that goes even for a giant like Adobe.
https://forum.dxo.com/t/some-database-querying-tools-that-you-might-find-useful/50526/52
This is about how the productivity problems with the Descriptions and Keywords can be solved in a proper and holistic way with iMatch without leaving the users to turn to emergency solutions like the tread owner Freixas is trying to solve with SQL-queries or Joanna is trying to solve with the keyword-application she has made herself which she is running in parallell with Photolab!! to solve the problems Photolab hasn´t solved.
https://forum.dxo.com/t/some-database-querying-tools-that-you-might-find-useful/50526/54
This is really a call for you Mario and DXO to do something together (sell bundles - get in synch) and for the users that takes metadata serious but are stuck with Photolab´s poor PictureLibrary and apparently don´t know about anything else than Photolab or with Lightroom for that matter.
The reason I write this is that you really have a golden opportunity when so many are realy pissed with Adobe of a lot of reasons now to offer a joint scalable solution with Photolab AND iMatch that solves all the problems the users are trying to solve at DXO Forums. Nothing beats Photolab on image quality and I don´t think anything beats iMatch today as a real personal or workgrouo DAM that has all possibilities to scale all the way to be used as a front end for people working with corporate DAM-systems just because iMatch unlike for example PhotoMechanic (still works internally with just IPTC) is built on a solid base of XMP. There is also nothing that works and synchs better together today than Photolab and iMatch and since there are so many that have migrated to Photolab just because of being a non-subscription solution even iMatch fits into that offer being non-subscription too.
I have myself upgraded Photolab every year since 10 years just to support it despite I have to subscribe even to Capture One too since there are things that are really difficult to in Photolab. I need both. I want Photolab to survive because of the qualities it also have (image quality). I also want iMatch to survive because Photolab and iMatch is the best combo there is for me and many others today I think. They are an almost perfect match in order to scale Photolab to the next level for a reasonable cost. They have all to gain through a life in symbiosis and I also think it is sad so many are stuck there with Lightroom when there are better alternatives. There is an opening especially now when so many are so deeply disappointed in Adobe of so many reasons.
#53
General Discussion and Questions / Re: Files not showing
Last post by Lucio.B - June 11, 2025, 11:52:07 PM> What is a "file transfer"? What do you do?
Just transfer the files from the SD card to the NVMe drive via a USB card reader.
>Select some of these files in a File Window, press Shift+Ctrt+F5 and then select "Force Update" in the dialog.
If this produces the same result, ZIP and attach the log file from that session. It will show us the warnings IMatch has logged when it tried to read the images.
Done but nothing changes so I've attached the log file.
>Also, open Edit menu > Preferences > Application. Search for photools and check the state of Prefer photools.com RAW processing. This is on by default.
Checked and it was already on by default
Since my first post i made a fresh installation of Win 11
I've tried the Ctrl+Shift+F5 > force Update on freshly transferred files but nothing changed.
Years ago I had issues of files damaged during the transfer so I've tried to exclude similar issues doing as follows:
I have transferred the TEST files that were shot with 2 different cameras, recorded on 2 different SD cards, with 2 different card readers in separate directories but nothing changed.
Thank you Mario
Kind Regards
Just transfer the files from the SD card to the NVMe drive via a USB card reader.
>Select some of these files in a File Window, press Shift+Ctrt+F5 and then select "Force Update" in the dialog.
If this produces the same result, ZIP and attach the log file from that session. It will show us the warnings IMatch has logged when it tried to read the images.
Done but nothing changes so I've attached the log file.
>Also, open Edit menu > Preferences > Application. Search for photools and check the state of Prefer photools.com RAW processing. This is on by default.
Checked and it was already on by default
Since my first post i made a fresh installation of Win 11
I've tried the Ctrl+Shift+F5 > force Update on freshly transferred files but nothing changed.
Years ago I had issues of files damaged during the transfer so I've tried to exclude similar issues doing as follows:
I have transferred the TEST files that were shot with 2 different cameras, recorded on 2 different SD cards, with 2 different card readers in separate directories but nothing changed.
Thank you Mario
Kind Regards
#54
General / Re: New keywords don't show up...
Last post by Jingo - June 11, 2025, 10:33:48 PMQuote from: christian.mueller on June 11, 2025, 09:00:31 PMI emptied the processing queue for AutoTagger using the Info and Activity panel (one file got stuck there). Thereafter, @keywords category was correctly updated.Interesting that you mention the file got stuck in the queue for the autotagger... I wonder if your log showed anything of note to help shed light on my own autotagger queue stuck issue? Shot in the dark.. but....still hoping!
Problem solved.
Many thanks for your prompt and professional help.
#55
General / Re: New keywords don't show up...
Last post by christian.mueller - June 11, 2025, 09:00:31 PMI emptied the processing queue for AutoTagger using the Info and Activity panel (one file got stuck there). Thereafter, @keywords category was correctly updated.
Problem solved.
Many thanks for your prompt and professional help.
#56
Workflow / Re: An example: Where poor key...
Last post by Mario - June 11, 2025, 08:33:33 AMDoing DAM right is hard!
And for DxO and C1 (even Lr) it's only a side-show. They concentrate (and should) on image editing and producing the best quality from RAW files.
My drill press cannot do what my planer does. Each tool does the job it's designed for to perfection.
And for DxO and C1 (even Lr) it's only a side-show. They concentrate (and should) on image editing and producing the best quality from RAW files.
My drill press cannot do what my planer does. Each tool does the job it's designed for to perfection.
#57
General Discussion and Questions / Re: IMatch crashes when runnin...
Last post by Mario - June 11, 2025, 08:25:23 AMQuote from: fisketjon on June 10, 2025, 09:01:16 PMNot 24, but 12 cores24 with HT.
Add an exclusion to Defender and see if this changes anything. Defender gets rarely in the way, but it has done so in the past.
#58
Workflow / Re: An example: Where poor key...
Last post by PandDLong - June 11, 2025, 07:11:33 AMThat was an eye-opener - it all sounds very painful! Thanks for sharing.
Michael
Michael
#59
Workflow / An example: Where poor keyword...
Last post by Stenis - June 11, 2025, 12:05:37 AMRead this: https://forum.dxo.com/t/some-database-querying-tools-that-you-might-find-useful/50526
This example is from DXO Forums where people tries to cope with a very poor and archaic "PictureLibrary" in the RAW-converter DXO Photolab ith different emergency solutions. I refuse to call it a Photo-DAM, because it lacks even some of the more basic functions we are taking for granted in iMatch. Photolab is maybe the worst example but even Lightroom and Capture One has their problems and limitations.
One part of the problem is also the very poor interest the DXO staff has in their own DXO Forums. The difference compared to these user forums are enormus.
This example is from DXO Forums where people tries to cope with a very poor and archaic "PictureLibrary" in the RAW-converter DXO Photolab ith different emergency solutions. I refuse to call it a Photo-DAM, because it lacks even some of the more basic functions we are taking for granted in iMatch. Photolab is maybe the worst example but even Lightroom and Capture One has their problems and limitations.
One part of the problem is also the very poor interest the DXO staff has in their own DXO Forums. The difference compared to these user forums are enormus.
#60
General / Re: Face Thumbnails are someti...
Last post by mastodon - June 10, 2025, 09:52:51 PMI need some days, and do a test from face tag cleared versions of images, that has this problem.