Created attachment 144880 [details] Screen Capture SUMMARY *** When I want to move a bunch of selected pictures to a new album, I often used the automatic date proposal. (Oldest/Average/Newest). But recently It does not work as expected. The suggest dates are not relevant to the "Photograph properties" of the group of pictures I selected, but instead to the file creation date of the whole surrounding Album. *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 0. From a Album where a lot of pictures reside, with many different dates. 1. Select the enclosed sample jpg picture, taken on 12th Feb 2020. 2. Right click "Move to" 3. Select "New Album" 4. Click Average OBSERVED RESULT on my computer, 1st July 2020 is proposed EXPECTED RESULT 12th Feb 2020 , as this is the dates of the (only) selected picture (file and photograph taken). SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: 10 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I believe that there could be 2 reasons of this "issue". * analyzed dates seems to be the full/original Album content from where the selection was made. I would expect the analysis would better scope the selected pictures. I almost consider this sicrepency as a bug. * analyzed dates seems to be OS File creation dates, not the Photograph taken dates (I would prefer that 2nd option ; this approach could be discussed, I must admit).
Sample JPG can be found here : https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ahp2yXCYf8WmmWkOUmTMI41SRaig?e=dP13QB
There was a patch here from an external developer. The album date is set to the newest date of a image in the album. We also had bug reports on this request. He sorted the albums by date so that the sorting is correct after adding new images to the albums. I was also a bit critical of this patch. We may need to make it configurable. Maik
In principle, if you don't add any more images to the album, you can set the average, which should then be retained. Maik
Hi Maik, thank you for your feedback. On my side, the bug i report is just at Album creation step (from a selection of pictures). At that creation stage, an Album date can be decided (Oldest Average Newest) but none of the 3 are consistent to the picture(s) i've selected.
I hope I understand you correctly, in the New Album Dialog, I think the selection of images is being ignored. Since the album date is set to the newest when moving and scanning, you should only edit the date after moving. Maik
The album has to be definitely created, otherwise the date cannot be calculated. I'll hide the buttons in New Album mode. Maik
Git commit bdca73993d6b2f14c95701ba78c7a63bc71e6ad0 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 26/12/2021 at 18:54. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. hide date calculation button in new album mode FIXED-IN: 7.5.0 M +1 -1 NEWS M +3 -0 core/libs/album/widgets/albumpropsedit.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/bdca73993d6b2f14c95701ba78c7a63bc71e6ad0
Hi Maik, thank you for your message. I agree with you, hiding the Date calculation buttons is maybe the best solution if Album date is anyway not meant to be managed at this initial step. Thank you. Season's greetings !