Quick-Look Preview, Metadata Handling, and Sync Fixes · Release Candidate 55

Quick-Look in Thumbnail View

The most visible change is the new quick-look functionality in the thumbnail grid. Pressing the space bar on a focused image enlarges it without leaving the current view, making it easier to assess sharpness, composition, or metadata at a glance during culling sessions. For photographers working through large imports, this should reduce the friction of switching between the grid and the full details view.

More Control Over Date and Time Metadata

The date/time adjustment dialog now allows editing the Date/time modified field in addition to EXIF-based capture times. This is useful for workflows where you need the filesystem timestamp to reflect a specific correction—whether for archiving consistency, sorting logic, or matching a revised capture time after batch adjustments.

Resolving Scanned Folder Instability

A significant portion of this update addresses hardening against crashes that occurred when scanned folders are referenced but not locally available in the active library instance. These edge cases typically arise in multi-device setups, where a folder might exist on one machine but not on the current one, yet still appears in the library’s synchronized state.

Specifically, the app could crash during synchronization if a file was remotely deleted from such a folder, when a missing duplicate file was encountered, or when using the event selector in the presence of these unavailable folders. These fixes improve the resilience of the sync engine when operating across libraries with partial or temporarily offline folder structures.

Other Fixes and Refinements

This release also includes a few smaller UI and interaction corrections. The behavior of the space bar in details view has been aligned with the middle mouse button for consistency. We’ve fixed an issue where the mouse cursor would remain in a drag state after zooming in and out via the middle mouse button, and corrected the status indicator colors in the device pane when using the light theme. Finally, library instances that had synchronization errors will no longer incorrectly display as “up to date.”

As always, this update is available for testing. If you’re working with scanned folders across multiple devices, or frequently adjusting timestamps during your post-processing workflow, we’d particularly welcome feedback on how these changes hold up in practice.

As always, see the change log for the full list of changes.