For a specific batch of pictures I imported, Tropy suddenly stopped recognising the dates as I was inputing them in the usual format. This means that ‘1989-10-12’ failed to show as ‘Oct 12, 1989’.
To check what was going on, I decided to import another batch of pictures and this time it worked fine. After I pressed ‘enter’, ‘1989-10-12’ automatically became ‘Oct 12, 1989’. I tried again inputing the dates in the other batch of pictures that was posing problem, and it still doesn’t work.
The only difference I see is that in the batch of pictures that poses problem, I initially typed the date in the wrong place (in the ‘publisher’ line). Once I realized this, I dragged-and-dropped the date to the date line; and from then on it stopped working. I don’t know whether there is a link between the two but that’s the only difference I can see…