bixo wrote:Before the update I could delete an image and upload the same image with updated IPTC data and Imagvue would read the updated IPTC description.
In new X3.24 AND previous version, when you SAVE title, it gets stored in the page.json data file. If you delete the image, and upload an image with the same name, it will inherit the title saved from earlier (from page.json). To workaround this, you can either
1) click SAVE in edit mode
AFTER you have deleted the image to make sure title/description in page.json gets deleted, or
2) Make sure the NEW image has a NEW name.
What is happening in your case is likely this:
- You upload an image, and title/description will save in image IPTC and page.json on save. This will happen regardless of if the original data came from IPTC or you added it manually from panel edit mode.
- You delete the image, but the title/description is still stored in page.json.
- You upload a new image with new IPTC info.
- Since data from page.json will precede data from IPTC, you will still see old title/description.
- When you click SAVE, X3 will in fact overwrite your IPTC with the IPTC currently set in panel (which could be the old one).
Actually, there are three ways to solve this:
- After deleting the image, click SAVE in edit mode so that the title/description gets deleted for this image, and will not inherit upon new images uploaded with the same name.
- Or you could just empty the title/description in edit mode even BEFORE you delete the image.
- Or simply upload new images with incrementing file name, for example "bird3.jpg". Personally I always do this anyway to alleviate cache issues (which could be a separate problem), and there is no disadvantage by this.
I guess X3 should really automatically delete a file's title/description (in page.json) once it gets deleted from the panel. No need to purge any IPTC data though, as this gets purged when you delete the image.