Thanks for your interest
This issue of rotated portrait photos is still happening. I started a new project with an entirely different set of jpg photos. These were saved from the camera SD card to a folder on my PC. All good for the first days of work, but eventually, after multiple saves and re-loads, I see some (not all) of the portrait photos are rotated and distorted.
My observations and guesses are as follows. When I save the project the first few times, it saves very quickly in just a few seconds as I’d expect from my system (see below for specs). When I re-load the project, this also happens in just a few seconds and everything is good. Occasionally, however, it takes a bit longer (about 20sec) to save (using File Save or Ctrl-S). When I re-load later, the Header is read quickly, but the import of media and timeline update takes quite a long time – maybe 30sec or more. I can guess then that the problem most likely has occurred.
After I’ve corrected the rotated jpgs, if I use File Save AS and overwrite the existing project, this (I think) prevents the issue for that project file and the next project re-load is OK.
So my guess is that something is corrupting rotation settings in the project file perhaps when File Save (or Ctrl-S) is used for an already existing project, but when a new project is saved for the first time or File Save AS for a total over-write of an existing project is used, things are usually OK.
I have no idea how PD14 saves files nor what the format of the PDS project file is (??compiled XML, compressed, etc), so I cannot investigate this further.
I have a reasonable PC running Win 10 Pro 64bit on a core i7, 16GB RAM, Samsung 500GB SSD as the programme/boot drive and a WD 4TB data drive, where all data is saved. The SSD is never used by me to store data – everything goes to the 4TB HDD. There’s plenty of space on both drives.
I would think that having the PD14 program on the SSD and the data files on a different HDD shold not be an issue?
I’m using PD 14 with the 4207.0 update.
I haven’t had a chance to strip out the EXIF data as yet – there’s family pressure to see our photos!
Cheers
Bill from Oz