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« on: December 20, 2009, 08:03:11 pm » |
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I use colons (  in my keywords. It's part of the machine keywords syntax used on flickr. At some point in the recent past, either 4.6.2.1 or 4.6.2, I lost the ability to enter in colons. They get turned into a pipe (|) with a space on either side. Is there anyway to turn this auto translation off? Running 4.6.2.1 on OS X, 10.5.8. |
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Kirk Baker
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« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2009, 08:04:12 pm » |
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I use colons ( in my keywords. It's part of the machine keywords syntax used on flickr. At some point in the recent past, either 4.6.2.1 or 4.6.2, I lost the ability to enter in colons. They get turned into a pipe (|) with a space on either side. Is there anyway to turn this auto translation off? No, but version 4.6.2.2 will no longer do that. You can get a beta version of 4.6.2.2 in the Announcements section of the forums. -Kirk |
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tgray
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« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2009, 08:05:43 pm » |
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Can't beat that response time. haha. Thanks.
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tgray
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« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2009, 08:24:37 pm » |
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It still seems to do it to some extent. I have the following keyword: "info:dev= XTOL 1:1". 4.6.2.1 turn this into "info | dev= XTOL 1 | 1". I used the find and replace function to search for "info | " and change it to "info:". So far so good. I then used find and replace to search for "1 | 1" and replace it with "1:1". That worked too, but all the "info:"s reverted to "info | " again.
Why are colons being replaced anyway? If the pipe character has some special significance, why not just type in a pipe when you need it?
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Kirk Baker
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« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2009, 09:54:48 pm » |
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It still seems to do it to some extent. I have the following keyword: "info:dev= XTOL 1:1". 4.6.2.1 turn this into "info | dev= XTOL 1 | 1". I used the find and replace function to search for "info | " and change it to "info:". So far so good. I then used find and replace to search for "1 | 1" and replace it with "1:1". That worked too, but all the "info:"s reverted to "info | " again.
Why are colons being replaced anyway? If the pipe character has some special significance, why not just type in a pipe when you need it?
Are you using 4.6.2.2 beta? 4.6.2.1 does indeed have the problem you describe. As for the problem itself, it's a bug. -Kirk |
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tgray
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« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2009, 10:01:56 pm » |
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Yup, just downloaded it.
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Kirk Baker
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« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2009, 10:36:45 pm » |
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Yup, just downloaded it.
Is the problem fixed then? -Kirk |
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tgray
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« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2009, 06:37:20 am » |
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Sorry. Reply #3 above is using 4.6.2.2 beta 2. After playing around with it some more, if I enter a keyword with a colon in it, it is saved correctly. However, if I then reopen the image and add a new keyword, the colon gets transformed into a pipe.
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Kirk Baker
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« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2009, 10:27:46 am » |
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Sorry. Reply #3 above is using 4.6.2.2 beta 2. After playing around with it some more, if I enter a keyword with a colon in it, it is saved correctly. However, if I then reopen the image and add a new keyword, the colon gets transformed into a pipe.
Please list the steps (and names of dialogs) in order to reproduce this problem with the 4.6.2.2 beta. I have tried to reproduce this issue in my 4.6.2.2 beta (newer than what's currently posted) and I cannot reproduce it with either the IPTC Info or IPTC Stationery Pad dialogs. Thanks, -Kirk |
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tgray
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« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2009, 09:20:43 am » |
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I don't have my laptop here (and won't be back to it until the new year), but the steps were this:
1 - select photo
2 - open Stationery Pad and have keywords entered ('info:neg={filename}, info:dev = XTOL 1:1')
3 - apply pad
at this point everything is ok
4 - open IPTC info and add a keyword. Anything seemed to work.
at this point colons were changed to pipes. I was checking with exiftool from the command line and Get Info in Finder. I think I could also replace steps 2 and 3 with the IPTC info dialog and manually enter a keyword, save it, reopen it, add another word, and save. It was after the second saving that colons changed to pipes.
I can't do any more tests until the new year, but I will gladly do them over and others when I get back.
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Kirk Baker
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« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2009, 09:43:01 am » |
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I don't have my laptop here (and won't be back to it until the new year), but the steps were this:
1 - select photo
2 - open Stationery Pad and have keywords entered ('info:neg={filename}, info:dev = XTOL 1:1')
3 - apply pad
at this point everything is ok
4 - open IPTC info and add a keyword. Anything seemed to work.
at this point colons were changed to pipes. I was checking with exiftool from the command line and Get Info in Finder. I think I could also replace steps 2 and 3 with the IPTC info dialog and manually enter a keyword, save it, reopen it, add another word, and save. It was after the second saving that colons changed to pipes.
I can't do any more tests until the new year, but I will gladly do them over and others when I get back.
OK, try it out on the 4.6.2.2 beta 3 version when you get back. -Kirk |
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