PM+ stops

[Soizic]

Sorry, I found 50 canon S90 pictures without problem in catalog

[Hayo Baan]

Hi Soizic,

Thank you for sharing the problematic images (lovely cat by the way ).

I think I know what's causing issues with PM, the metadata of the file is corrupted (not badly, but I think badly enough for PM to choke on it). As part of this, the caption looks really weird:

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Canon PowerShot S90
objectif :

6mm f/5 1/10" ISO1000

Focus:   WB:
Mtring:? `MMOD_unknown’

Comp:  0.0ev  +989.2

sRGB IEC61966-2.1 (embedded)
fichier : 1.4MB  JPEG
crop : 1800x1350 (1.33)
Print: 15.3 x 11.4 cms, 300 pixels/inch
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If I check the file with exiftool -a -validate -warning I get a fair number of warnings:

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Validate                        : 15 Warnings (all minor)
Warning                         : [minor] Possibly incorrect maker notes offsets (fix by -142978?)
Warning                         : [minor] Bad offset for MakerNotes CanonCameraSettings
Warning                         : [minor] Bad offset for MakerNotes CanonFocalLength
Warning                         : [minor] Bad offset for MakerNotes tag 0x0003
Warning                         : [minor] Bad offset for MakerNotes CanonShotInfo
Warning                         : [minor] Bad offset for MakerNotes CanonImageType
Warning                         : [minor] Bad offset for MakerNotes CanonFirmwareVersion
Warning                         : [minor] Bad offset for MakerNotes OwnerName
Warning                         : [minor] Bad offset for MakerNotes ThumbnailImageValidArea
Warning                         : [minor] Bad offset for MakerNotes tag 0x0018
Warning                         : [minor] Bad offset for MakerNotes MyColors
Warning                         : [minor] Bad offset for MakerNotes tag 0x001f
Warning                         : [Minor] Too many warnings -- MakerNotes parsing aborted
Warning                         : [minor] Non-standard ExifIFD tag 0xa500 Gamma
Warning                         : [minor] Unknown IFD0 tag 0x9219

@Kirk, does this help tracking down the cause of the hang?

[Soizic]

Thanks, even original pictures are wrong. 

[Hayo Baan]

Thanks, even original pictures are wrong.

That's a pity, so some software has corrupted them (or, also possible, you ran into an issue called bit-rot where – over time – 0s and 1s change)
The good news is though that the image data itself seemed to be intact. It's just that PM can't currently handle slightly corrupted metadata.

You're not the only one by the way, I took Frederic's example image from his post and I could definitely reproduce the scan to catalog to hang with that. I'm sure this will help CameraBits to fix the issue.

[Soizic]

I thing I shall shoot pictures on my screen (or capture screen)
Not really good pictures, but I love them !