Windows 10 Followup
After my past last week about the upgrade to Windows 10, I've discovered a few things that have been trying...
We have a web site where we post family pictures for our friends and relatives to view. Yes, I know that there are web sites that do this, but we created our own web site long before these other ones existed, and I own all the data on my web site instead of giving all that data to someone else. To make things easier on us, I have a script that takes all the file names from the digital camera and renames them based on the date the picture was taken. So instead of some file "IMG_2754.JPG" it's "2015_12_10_01.JPG" and we can see that the picture was taken December 10, 2015.
Well, that code stopped working on Windows 10. The library I was using didn't seem to work no matter what I did, so I ended up creating a new library to read the exif information out of the images. The new library seems to work, but it took several hours to get everything working.
The next thing that we ran into I haven't solved yet (although I think I have a solution - it just hasn't been tested yet). Windows 10 (it actually started in Windows 8) tries to be helpful by automatically rotating images when the image is taken with the camera rotated. That's a great feature, but it doesn't rotate the original - it only shows the rotated image. In Windows 7, we would bring all the pictures in, then rotate the ones that needed it (right-click, rotate clockwise/counter clockwise). It wasn't too much work, but it was something we had to do in order to bring the pictures in correctly.
Now that the images are auto-rotated, when the pictures are brought in they are in the wrong orientation. Even if we follow the same steps and right-click and rotate, they are still in the wrong orientation. It appears that the right-click and rotate doesn't actually change anything when the display of the images is auto-rotated.
So I have to update the code that does the renaming based on the date the picture was taken to also rotate the image to the proper orientation. That's something that actually would have been useful in Windows 7 (it would have saved us that step) but since it wasn't a big deal for us to rotate manually I never looked into how to code that. Now it's completely necessary.
Hopefully my code fix that I'll test later today or this weekend will work and rotate the images properly.
We have a web site where we post family pictures for our friends and relatives to view. Yes, I know that there are web sites that do this, but we created our own web site long before these other ones existed, and I own all the data on my web site instead of giving all that data to someone else. To make things easier on us, I have a script that takes all the file names from the digital camera and renames them based on the date the picture was taken. So instead of some file "IMG_2754.JPG" it's "2015_12_10_01.JPG" and we can see that the picture was taken December 10, 2015.
Well, that code stopped working on Windows 10. The library I was using didn't seem to work no matter what I did, so I ended up creating a new library to read the exif information out of the images. The new library seems to work, but it took several hours to get everything working.
The next thing that we ran into I haven't solved yet (although I think I have a solution - it just hasn't been tested yet). Windows 10 (it actually started in Windows 8) tries to be helpful by automatically rotating images when the image is taken with the camera rotated. That's a great feature, but it doesn't rotate the original - it only shows the rotated image. In Windows 7, we would bring all the pictures in, then rotate the ones that needed it (right-click, rotate clockwise/counter clockwise). It wasn't too much work, but it was something we had to do in order to bring the pictures in correctly.
Now that the images are auto-rotated, when the pictures are brought in they are in the wrong orientation. Even if we follow the same steps and right-click and rotate, they are still in the wrong orientation. It appears that the right-click and rotate doesn't actually change anything when the display of the images is auto-rotated.
So I have to update the code that does the renaming based on the date the picture was taken to also rotate the image to the proper orientation. That's something that actually would have been useful in Windows 7 (it would have saved us that step) but since it wasn't a big deal for us to rotate manually I never looked into how to code that. Now it's completely necessary.
Hopefully my code fix that I'll test later today or this weekend will work and rotate the images properly.
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