Hi folks,
After my last thread, I've managed to crack a lot with metadata. However, this one eludes me:
Photo, imported from Lightroom Classic, contains this metadata related to date of capture (using exiftool under linux):
File Name : 20030708-145253.png
Create Date : 2003:07:08 14:52:53
Date Created : 2003:07:08 14:52:53
Preserved File Name : 2003-07-08-101-0166.jpg
Raw File Name : 20030708-145253.jpg
Date/Time Original : 2003:07:08 14:52:53
This is the file that actually sits in jAlbum's main area (import area, not web export).
With Tiger skin, this is the caption on the full photo page:
================
Rheinfall
Date: [] Time:
11:11
================
The template code in Tiger for the Lightbox caption is:
=================================
${comment}
Date: ${originalDate} Time:${originalTime}
=================================
No date, and the time is wrong. 11:11 comes from the file modification time.
So it's like jAlbum is ignoring all the capture datestamp fields...
Could this be a setting somewhere?
If I run exiftool on the file that's been written to the web export area, that has been stripped of all capture dates - which I think may be a clue?...
Is there some album or global setting I need to preserve meta data to the web export output?
I have also looked in data1.json in the output directory, and for this file I have:
{
"image": {
"path": "slides\/20030708-145253.png",
"width": 1600,
"height": 1200
},
"creator": "REDACTED",
"keywords": [
"2003-07_Switzerland",
"Albums",
"Holidays"
],
"thumb": {
"path": "thumbs\/20030708-145253.png",
"width": 206,
"height": 206
},
"thumbCaption": "
Switzerland 2003<\/div>
Rheinfall<\/div>",
"rating": 3,
"dates": {
"dateTaken": 1753265499
},
"fileDate": "2025-07-23T11:11:39.817Z",
"title": "Switzerland 2003",
"path": "20030708-145253.png",
"imageCaption": "
Rheinfall<\/div>
Rheinfall<\/div>
Date: [] Time:11:11<\/span>",
"fileSize": 5684957,
"rights": "REDACTED (C) 2003",
"name": "20030708-145253.png",
"comment": "Rheinfall",
"category": "image",
"camera": {
"originalDate": "2025-07-23T11:11:39.817Z"
}
},
Many thanks, Tim
