by bulkrenamer » Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:03 pm
This looks like a windows EXIF fault.
If a folder has any JPEG images containing certain EXIF information, then the hang happens.
This also can happen with Windows Explorer, the Windows 'Photos' tool, The windows 'Photo Gallery' tool and probably many others.
I have my own app which reads EXIF information. It has hangs, and runs out of memory, when trying to read all the EXIF codes. This did not happen before a recent Windows10 update. I have a previous copy of the program which only reads certain codes. This works fine.
It appears that Windows, after a reset, works once for one application, but then fails until the next reset for any other applications, including bulk rename. For the bulk rename to work correctly, it possibly needs to read the EXIF codes itself, rather than relying on a windows call, and then only read some codes?