ViewNX problem

[Mr Darcy]

Yesterday, ViewNX was working fine.
Today It is crashing with the usual "send error to microsoft" message.
What's changed?
I downloaded a new version of Java. the 25th is my day for updates.
I also edited the EXIF properties of a picture in that directory using MS internal "View picture info" option.
I haven't tried other directories yet.

Oh and when I fired up DSLRUsers, the screen was wacky. Looked like the tables were the wrong dimension. That one sorted itself out though.

I will try a reinstall of ViewNX but Grrrr!
Then I will see if I can roll back Java. I don't hold out much hope.

[Mr Darcy]

Further to this,
I have isolated the issue to the photo I changed the comments on. It appears that changing the comments field using MS PhotoInfo alters the file to the point that it destabilises ViewNX
THis would appear to be (a) a bug in MS PhotoInfo and (b) A bug in View NX

I do not normally edit the EXIF data in this way, but I have an identifier automatically produced in camera, and the competition rules said to strip it out.

Any suggestions on where to go from here?

[radar]

Try changing the field with exiftool, that is my choice for changing/displaying any exif data:

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

It is a command line tool but the docs should be fairly easy. That's how I usually change my exif for the comp. I never remember to remove the comment field in-camera.

HTH,

Andre