DNG converter just started changing dates wildly-by 10 years!

Question

Hey all,
Been using DNG converter for awhile now with zero problems.  The past couple weeks whenever I process some files up to my server at work, it will change the date from today's date (i.e. 2/24/14) to some date in 2002.
I've tried rebooting the computer, restarting DNG converter, deleting DNG Converter and re-installing a newer version.  Nothing is working.
Any ideas?  I don't think I've done anything differently... it just started happening.
Thanks
Jeff

Answer 1

Hi,
I tried the following - perhaps it helps you:
created catalog - imported cr2 files, applied development ajustments
imported the same images as dng files (without ajustments)
delete cr2 files outsite of lr.
Tried to copy / export ajustments - did not work :-(
My Solution:
Make a backup of your existing data, before you try this!
1. I picked a random cr2 file (name test.cr2) and gave it the name of the original raw file. I patched the exif data from the dng file into the copied raw file:
     for a in *.dng; do
               cp test.cr2 `basename $a .dng`.cr2
               exiftool -tagsFromFile $a `basename $a .dng`.cr2
     done
2. Now I was able to export the cr2 ajustments as .xmp files (perhapst copy/past may also work)
3. I appied the xmp file to the dng files
     for a in *.xmp; do
          exiftool -tagsFromFile $a `basename $a .xmp`.dng
     done
4. I reloaded the metadata from the dng files into lr. LR applied the ajustments.
My script are only examples which worked for me on cygwin. They work with bash. The skript does not check if cr2 already exists - so it overwrites cr2 if dng files with the same name exists. (If you need the script for mac, I can try to re-write it tomoroow.)