Re: "Save changes" prompt when already saved

Posted by Mike Cowperthwaite on Dec 22, 2009; 8:06pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Save-changes-prompt-when-already-saved-tp3689950p3689953.html

That makes sense, but it should only apply if the original image *has*
the metadata.  In my case, the original and the Save As are both PNG.

On 22-Dec-09 11:40 am, Michael Schmid wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> this happens if you save the image with a format other than tiff or zip
> (compressed tiff). The reason is that metadata associated with the image,
> such as scale, gray value calibration, and user metadata won't be saved in
> the other formats and would be lost when closing the image.
>
> Michael
> ______________________________________________________________
>
> On Tue, December 22, 2009 18:44, Mike Cowperthwaite wrote:
>> 1) Open an image, perform some edit (like cropping).
>> 2) "Save As" some new file
>> 3) Try to close the image window
>>
>> Response: ImageJ prompts, "Save changes...?"  Well, NO -- we just DID
>> save changes.
>>
>> Can this go away, please?  "Save As" should be as good as "Save" for
>> clearing the dirty-bit on the image.

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Mike Cowperthwaite
Lathrop Engineering, San Jose CA