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bleraillez

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How can you exclude an image from being new?
Posted: 3 Feb 26, 17:57

Hello,

Is there a way to replace an image and not have it "new".
Example: I decide to change an image contrast in LightRoom, I export the new version to my disk, import it in jAlbum replacing the old one and I don't want this image to be declared "new". Is there a way to do this?

TIA

PS Reference fo new files date taken or added to the album doesn't solve the problem.

jA 38.0.4
Tiger 7.4.6
MacOS 26.2
LR & PS are latest versions.

JeffTucker

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Registered: 31-Jan-2006

Re: How can you exclude an image from being new?
Posted: 3 Feb 26, 18:37

in response to: bleraillez

Most of my skins provide Make New and Make Old buttons to take care of this. Otherwise, it has to be done manually. Open the image directory and close the project. Now navigate to the folder that contains the image you've replaced, then open .jalbum/albumfiles.txt in a text editor. The first column that contains a long serial number, rather than a file or path name, contains the date added, expressed as seconds since the epoch, which is Jan. 1, 1970. (There might be another long serial number after that, which is the camera date). You can just replace that number with a 1, which makes it look like it's been in the album forever.

Edited by: JeffTucker on 4 Feb 2026, 10:29 - corrected instructions.

JeffTucker

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Re: How can you exclude an image from being new?
Posted: 3 Feb 26, 19:27

in response to: JeffTucker

The other way to do it is to make the replacement outside of jAlbum. In other words, replace the file in the image directory with the new version. If the file name is the same, that should leave all the related information - date added, title, comment, etc. - unchanged.

ETA: jAlbum gets confused about the thumbnail when you do this, so you also need to exclude and re-include the replaced image (don't delete it - just exclude it).

bleraillez

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Registered: 17-May-2009

Re: How can you exclude an image from being new? (Tiger)
Posted: 4 Feb 26, 13:58

in response to: JeffTucker

Thank you Jeff but when I drop the new version in the image folder and launch jAlbum the new version is the one shown (good) but it is also in the new list and I don't know how Tiger can ignore this image.

P.S. On my site I have images with text included (the phylactères folder) and I decided to change the typeface so, for me, these are not new images.

Benoît Leraillez
www.leraillez.com

JeffTucker

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Re: How can you exclude an image from being new? (Tiger)
Posted: 4 Feb 26, 16:35

in response to: bleraillez

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I just tried both of the methods I've described (with some minor corrections - see my edits), and Tiger happily ignores the image in both cases - it doesn't appear in the "new" list, as long as you've chosen to determine newness by the date added (rather than the date modified).

The alternative is to use one my skins that has this capability built in. Screenshot from the image editing mode in Neptune attached.

bleraillez

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Registered: 17-May-2009

Re: How can you exclude an image from being new? (Tiger)
Posted: 6 Feb 26, 16:58

in response to: JeffTucker

Thank you,

I’ll try your skins in the coming days.

Benoît Leraillez
www.leraillez.com

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