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For some time I've been trying to figure out what is corrupting the times my photos were taken as shown in Plex. So I methodically went through my steps and found the bug.
If I add tags to one photo in organizer and then select it an choose File->Save Metadata to File, the file is saved, the keywords are added and a modify time stamp updates in the metadata. BUT, if I tag multiple files and then choose "File->Save Metadata to Files" the time on the DateTimeOriginal field also changes (but not the date). It's not my current time either. So if the photo has datetimeoriginal of "2022:04:18 14:11:24.160-05:00" and I set some keywords and write metadata to that one file datetimeoriginal does not change, but if I do multiple files at once I see it change to "2022:04:18 22:03:58-05:00".
I'm subscribed and up to date so is current version, shows 20.0.0.0 in help->system info.
This is a serious bug as there really is no recovery because those times are lost now. Ugh.
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Is there a more official place to submit a bug? This forum is all I could find.
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Doesn't a subscription include some level of support???
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This is a user-to-user forum. You can report a bug here. But before you do so, I suggest you read this article which explains how Elements uses date/time fields. And, there is no consistency between various programs as to how they use metadata fields. So, because you think you are seeing a different date/time in a field in Plex (which I assume is a program that can read a file's metadata), doesn't mean that Elements is seeing it the same way. Have you confirmed your findings in the Camera Data fields shown in the Organizer Information panel. I am reasonably confident that the date and time when your photos were originally taken has not been lost.
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Yes, I'm using exiftool on linux and see the time on those exact fields change only when I do a mass metadata update. I only mentioned plex because that's where I initially noticed the dates could not be correct. Thanks for the pointer to the bug reporting!!!
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Wait, when I click on that bug reporting link and choose photoshop elements it brings me to this community. That's how I got here in the first place :-(.
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Wait, when I click on that bug reporting link and choose photoshop elements it brings me to this community. That's how I got here in the first place :-(.
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Sorry about that. A few months ago, bug reporting became available on the forums for various Adobe products. That system has not yet been adopted for Elements. I was unaware that the form I linked was useless.
I will report your post to the powers-that-be on the Elements development team. I'm not sure whether they will consider it a bug, and I can virtually guarantee that nothing will be "fixed" in Elements 2022.
I will also report the bug form problem to the forum admins. if they are not already aware of it.
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Thanks, I took a trial of Photography/Lightroom and it does NOT have this bug. Even though it's more pricey maybe it's time I made the switch.