AmoK Exif Sorter - Changelog

Fix: Fix issue with trailing spaces in file names on Windows

Fix: Fix log file location

Fix: Use of the fallback date was faulty

Enhancement: Use system menu on macOS

Enhancement: Support the PEF file format (Pentax RAW)

Enhancement: Recognize Darktable duplicate sidcar files

Enhancement: upgrade included Java to version 21

Fix: Application icon on macOS will keep consistent

Enhancement: Metadata fallback date: New option to not sort files without dates

Enhancement: Update translations (thank you R.B.)

Fix: Added fix empty for MP4/Quicktime creation dates and modification dates

Fix: CSV / XML Exports do no longer contain adjusted dates

Fix: Some minor fixes and adjustments

Enhancement: Support a second format tag syntax that supports default/fallback values.

Enhancement: Added PNG file support

Enhancement: Improved windows installer (grazie R.B:)

Enhancement: Support for macOS aarch64

Enhancement: Added tags geocoordinate2, latitude2 and longtitude2 which return values rounded to 2 decimal places (accuracy of 1.11 km)

Enhancement: Added new tags lens, whitepoint, colortemperature, imagestabilization, subjectdistance, focusmode

Enhancement: Improved sidecar file matching (file abc.jpg matches abc.jpg.xmp but no longer matches abc.cr2.xmp)

Enhancement: Modified XML export structure. Use element name File instead of Image

Enhancement: Extended XML export, added new element Location containing geo coordinates

Enhancement: Added HIF as a HEIF file name extension

Enhancement: Replaced application icon

Enhancement: Removed the splash screen

Fix: Speed of the preview table has been massively improved (data loading, sorting, filtering)

Fix: A lighter color is used to highlight format tags in dark mode.

Fix: Fix support for Apple Live Photo movies.

Enhancement: Remove leading/trailing spaces from file/directory names if they were not defined in the format string

Enhancement: Updated italian translation (grazie R.B:)

Enhancement: Added italian, greek and catalan to Windows installer (grazie R.B:)

Fix: Resolved an issue where the application could hang

Fix: Use another metadata value to resolve MOV file creation date

Fix: Repaired macOS build

Enhancement: Added video related tags fps, sps, video_codec, audio_codec, duration

Enhancement: Added a preferences option to use the system language for date name formatting (tags: day_name, day_name_digitized, month_name, month_name_digitized)

Enhancement: Support for video formats (AVI, MOV and MP4)

Enhancement: Support for Linux aarch64

Enhancement: Support for reverse geocoding (geo coordinate to location name). New formattag location

Enhancement: Allow XML / CSV export of geo coordinate tags

Enhancement: Improved Image Viewer layout

Fix: Repaired preview table column sorting

Fix: Restored size of next button in Image Viewer dialog

Enhancement: preview table is now a tree and sidecar files are visualized as child elements

Enhancement: added new format tag for current directory name: %dirname%

Enhancement: upgrade included Java to version 17

Enhancement: added new tag %dirname%

Enhancement: improved high DPI icon support

Fix: column Management: Column Filename can be configured again

Fix: tag completion dialog was not working on Windows

Fix: fixed saving of profiles

Fix: repaired profile migration

Fix: restored tag %filename%

Fix: macOS: colon character is no longer allowed for file names and directory names

Fix:: tag completion dialog works better on Linux

Fix:: improved layout on screens with high zoom level

Enhancement: Support for RAW Formats: Adobe DNG, Canon CR2 / CRW, Fujifilm RAF, Leica RWL, Olympus ORF, Sony ARW / SRF / SR2 and Nikon NEF

Enhancement: Support for HEIC/HEIF format (metadata only)

Enhancement: Sort options are now always visible

Enhancement: Exif fallback date: New option to use files last modified date

Enhancement: Preview table allows to show the selected file in system explorer

Enhancement: Filter for preview table

Enhancement: Filter for Column Management Dialog tables

Enhancement: Filter for Tag Completion Dialog

Enhancement: Image viewer displays the file path

Enhancement: Image viewer can show the file in the system explorer

Enhancement: Reduced UI blocking while loading thumbnails

Enhancement: Date adjustment: Extended year range from -50/50 to -2100/2100

Enhancement: Process sidecar files is enabled by default for new profiles

Enhancement: Added Italian translation (Grazie Roberto! / Thank you Roberto!)

Enhancement: Menu entry to show log files

Enhancement: Linux and Mac OSX version of AmoK Exif Sorter is distributed with a custom Java Runtime Environment

Enhancement: Linux: Added AppImage distribution

Fix: Prevented leading / trailing spaces in windows directory names

Fix: Profile Combo was not updated after saving existing profiles

Fix: Translation for buttons in Column Management Dialog / Options Dialog

Fix: Existing files: number of digits behaves now as expected (1 → "1" / 2 → "01")

Enhancement: Added Catalan translation (Gràcies Joan! / Thank you Joan!).

Enhancement: Added new tag Exposure Time (Seconds) which contains the Exposure Time as decimals.

Enhancement: Added new tags File Size (B) , File Size (KiB) and File Size (MiB) which contain the image file size in bytes, kibibytes and mebibytes.

Fix: Exposure Time is now rounded (when needed) to fix issues with unusual exposure values used by Smartphone cameras.

Fix: Removed leading and trailing spaces from tag values. This fixes issues with some Olympus cameras.

Fix: Fixed application launching on modern Mac OS systems.

Enhancement: AmoK Exif Sorter requires Java 11 (64-bit) or higher.

Enhancement: Windows versions of AmoK Exif Sorter is distributed with a custom Java Runtime Environment

Enhancement: Changed default columns: Added ISO , Aperture , Exposure Time and Rating

Enhancement: Added Greek translation (Σας ευχαριστώ geogeo! / Thank you geogeo!).

Enhancement: Added support for XMP tag Rating which contains the rating/stars set in camera, raw developer software or other programs

Enhancement: Removed suffix \_iptc from all IPTC tags

Enhancement: Renamed IPTC tag line to byline

Enhancement: Renamed IPTC tag lineTitle to bylinetitle

Enhancement: Renamed IPTC tag notice to copyrightnotice

Enhancement: Renamed IPTC tag originatingprog to originatingprogram

Enhancement: Renamed IPTC tag province to provinceorstate

Enhancement: Renamed IPTC tag transmissionref to transmissionrefence

Enhancement: Changed Aperture format to F#.# (# = number)

Enhancement: Removed sec suffix from Exposure Time and Shutter Speed

Enhancement: All invalid file system characters are now replaced in format strings (characters differ between operating systems)

Enhancement: Added a donate link to ? menu ;)

Fix: Corrected launcher shell script for Linux

Fix: Some images produced an error in the image viewer

Enhancement: AmoK Exif Sorter requires Java 9 or higher.

Note: 32-bit Java support was removed as Java and SWT removed the support beginning with Java 9 / SWT 4.10.

Enhancement: Improved Support for high resolution displays and scaling

Enhancement: Updated icons

Enhancement: Added format tags day_name , day_name_digitized , month_name and month_name_digitized

Enhancement: Tags in image viewer are now sorted alphabetically

Enhancement: More file system characters are now allowed for non windows operating systems

Enhancement: Format tag edit box is now resizeable

Enhancement: Introduced new layouts for all dialog windows

Fix: Status messages will now more reliable be displayed

Fix: Renaming of active profile is now possible without loosing the profile selection in the main window

Fix: Fixed moving of files between drives / file systems

Fix: Fixed format tag day digitized

Enhancement: The orientation of thumbnail and preview pictures is now respected if metadata information is provided

Fix: Image viewer dialog didn’t show pictures which must not have been scaled

Fix: Fixed selection of hours in the Date section

Fix: Fixed options start with zero and count always

Enhancement: Column sorting in preview table is now case insensitive

Enhancement: Added a context menu to the header of the preview table

Enhancement: Renamed homonymous files to sidecar files

Fix: Fixed moving of files

Enhancement: AmoK Exif Sorter now requires Java 8

Enhancement: Multiple stability and speed improvements

Enhancement: The Exif data text export functionality was replaced with a CSV export

Enhancement: Improved the context menu of the preview table

Enhancement: The dates of copied files are now kept

Enhancement: File creation date is now used instead of file change date when no Exif Date is available

Enhancement: Thumbnails will be created if not available as meta data value

Enhancement: "Limitedly sortable" not possible any more. In case of missing EXIF data, default values are taken.

Fix: Linux: Workaround for GTK problem

Fix: Error in displaying thumbnails

Fix: Edit minutes in the interval of +/- 60 minute

Enhancement: Different versions for 32-bit and 64-bit for the major operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X)

Enhancement: Unified language specific user interface differences

Fix: Improved representation in Mac OS X and Linux

Enhancement: Added a program icon for Mac OS X (Thanks to Philipp K.)

Fix: Profile default settings were loaded on every program start

Fix: Added missing translations (Thanks to Russel. W.)

Fix: The option to process homonymous files was misinterpreted (Thanks to Lars R.)

Enhancement: Improved the toleranz to missing EXIF data.

Enhancement: Contact Entry updated to www.amok.am

Enhancement: With changing the sorting of the preview pane, the final renaming may be changed (e.g. with already existing or multiple files).

Enhancement: The content of the preview table will be updated according to the last sort or the default sort when new images are added.

Enhancement: Improved multi monitor support.

Enhancement: The format tags "Week" (%week%) und "Week digitized" (%week_digitized%) are now always displayed in double digits.

Enhancement: The maximum heap size of the Java VM was increased from 64MB to 256MB. This should reduce issues with processing of a lot of image files.

Fix: No crash after using the table manager.

Fix: Better support for THM files (JPEG video preview).

Fix: New profiles were always saved as "standard".

Fix: Homonymous file names with different written endings (uppercase/lowercase) were handled as one file. In consequence of this, the were overwritten.

Fix: The scrollbar for the option area (left side) is now displayed only on demand.

Fix: Improved error handling on issues with thumbnails.

Fix: Fixed an error when sorting the preview table.

Fix: Improved stability with illegal date values.

Fix: Fixed wrong title of this document.

Fix: Fixed support for Mac OS X 10.5.

Fix: Fixed support for Mac OS X 10.5.

Fix: The background color of the directory format text box is now displayed correctly when inputs are possible.

Enhancement: Updated SWT to version 3.2.

Enhancement: The user interface was improved for small displays.

Enhancement: Improved the save profile dialog.

Fix: Restored keyboard navigation in the format tag assistant.

Fix: The format tag %filename% returns now the original file name without the file ending.

Fix: Fixed a crash bug in the format tag assistant.

Enhancement: Added support for IPTC.

Enhancement: Added support for IPTC.

Enhancement: Added support for more EXIF format tags.

Enhancement: Additional homonymous files can now optionally be sorted (e.g. DSFC0001.jpg + DSFC0001.raw).

Enhancement: Added an option toolbar.

Enhancement: Added syntax highlighting for format tags.

Enhancement: Added an edit box for format tags.

Enhancement: Search for files in subdirectories can now be disabled.

Enhancement: Table columns can now be configured and sorted.

Enhancement: Added drag and drop sorting support for table columns.

Enhancement: The search for image files can now be cancelled.

Enhancement: Processing of image files can now be cancelled.

Enhancement: Improved the performance of the preview table.

Enhancement: Improved the meta data read performance.

Enhancement: Added sort state "restricted".

Enhancement: Added a message for missing thumbnails.

Enhancement: Improved the format tag assistant.

Enhancement: Moved profile selection to the toolbar.

Enhancement: Image viewer: Detail table has now a fixed width.

Enhancement: Image viewer: Detail table has now a fixed width.

Enhancement: Added a new and smaller Exifsorter.exe

Enhancement: Improved profile save dialog

Enhancement: Changed the way the size of the user interface was calculated.

Enhancement: Improved the speed of the copy operation.

Enhancement: Improved the text and XML export.

Enhancement: Updated SWT to version 3.2.

Enhancement: Added the separator "without".

Fix: The splash screen stays now always in the foreground.

Fix: Fixed a crash bug when using the CTRL key in the preview table.

Fix: Image viewer: Disabled selection in the detail table.

Fix: Restored display of the destination directory.

Fix: Fixed an error when images were removed from the preview table.

Fix: Fixed icon after changing the sort mode.