On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:28:11AM -0700, Powell Hargrave wrote: > If I add PEF files to a folder which has DNG files in it and then run DNG > Converter it creates a second copy of the DNG files. > > Any way to stop this annoying redundant behaviour?
Yes - don't put the DNG files in the same folder as the PEFs in the first place :-) It's not actually redundant behaviour - the DNG converter is documented to behave this way, and will take the opportunity to change the DNG internal structure, if necessary, to bring it up to the format the DNG converter now writes. This may mean adding extra DNG tags (including, I believe, the ability to fill them out from the copy of the Pentax MakerNote tag in the old DNG file - the only software I am aware of that knows how to look inside that copy of the Pentax private data). If your DNG files are already up to date, of course, then it is redundant behaviour for now. But the next time the DNG format is enhanced you'll appreciate being able to simply re-process your DNGs (retaining any additional information put there by Adobe Camera Raw, or by other programs), rather than having to go back to the original PEFs. That might not be a big deal. But, there again, if you have relegated the PEFs to offline storage (or even, heaven forbid, deleted them entirely) it make be a very big deal indeed!
