Release
Archyv 1.4.1
A fix release. Nothing about how you work changes — several things that were quietly reporting success while doing something else now do what they said.
Editing metadata on a video now sticks
A video can record the same fact in more than one place, and cameras do not all use the same one. Archyv wrote its own preferred copy and left the camera’s copy alone — so the edit was genuinely saved, Archyv correctly said so, and every other program you opened the file in kept showing the old value. VLC, Plex, Jellyfin and Windows File Explorer all read the copy Archyv was not updating.
Now, where a video already carries the camera’s own copy of a field, Archyv updates it in step with its own. This includes capture dates, which is the case most likely to have bitten you: a date correction could look applied in Archyv and stay wrong everywhere else.
Archyv does not add copies that were not already there — it only keeps the ones your file already has from contradicting each other.
Clearing a location on a video now removes it
Clearing the coordinates on a video sent nothing to the file at all, and the run log reported the field as successfully cleared. The coordinates stayed on the video while you were told they had been stripped. Fixed.
What to do: if you have cleared the location on a video with an earlier version and it mattered, check that file — the coordinates are most likely still on it.
Metadata Editor
- Removing a coordinate now clears the map too. After clicking the X the fields emptied and the current values read “no values”, but the map still showed the pin and printed the coordinates underneath — at the exact moment you were checking the removal had worked.
- A coordinate that lives only in a companion file now reaches the editor properly. On videos and DNG files it arrived in the wrong number format and was silently refused, so it could not be copied onto the file itself.
- “Fill in only what is empty” now applies to coordinates. It was being honoured for other fields and quietly ignored for GPS.
- Protected fields no longer block a write that was never at risk. A JPEG whose copyright lived only in its sidecar — the ordinary Lightroom arrangement — was refused, or warned about, even though nothing could have been overwritten.
- “(from sidecar)” now appears only beside the values already on your file, not beside the boxes you type into, where it read as if what you typed would go to the sidecar. Its explanation now actually appears when you hover it.
- The batch clear confirmation names the right button — it told you to click “Process”, which does not exist. It is “Start”.
Completion lists now name every file, and both of its names
- Files that share a name across different folders are no longer collapsed into one entry. This is routine on a camera card, where the frame counter restarts in every folder. One measured run selected 588 files and processed 311, and the completion list showed 201 — the number of distinct filenames. The counts were right; the list was not, and the same short list reached Processing History.
- Every line now shows old → new where a file was renamed, and the folder it came from, across all four processes that rename.
- File Sort names your file. During a sort Archyv briefly renames files to a temporary working name so a batch can be reshuffled without collisions. Four kinds of line — including the warning telling you a file was about to be displaced — printed that internal name, which matches nothing you have ever seen on disk.
- Processing History records where files actually went. For File Transfer it recorded the folder they came from.
- Duration on the completion summary now covers the whole run, including the metadata reading at the start. A 19-second rename reported 0.1 seconds.
Undo
Undo used to work out which photo an edit file had travelled with by comparing filenames afterwards. Two photos in one folder sharing a name but not an extension — a RAW file and its second RAW format, say — produced the same answer, so an edit file could be put back beside a photo it never belonged to.
Archyv now records which photo each edit file travelled with at the time of the run, and Undo uses that. This covers renaming, sorting, transferring, deleting a duplicate, and a transfer set to overwrite.
Hover help
Explanatory help that appears when you hover the small information icon beside a label was unreliable — often nothing appeared at all. It has been rebuilt so it appears consistently.