Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Expression Media 2. This article contains information about how to obtain Expression Media 2 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and provides a list of issues that are fixed by this service pack.
Expression Media 2 SP2 provides the latest updates to Expression Media Version 2.
Service pack details
Issues that this service pack fixes in Macintosh and in Windows
- It takes a long time to import many large images
- The XML export and import operations may scramble custom fields.
- Catalogs that are saved from a Macintosh lose their paths to the original media. This issue occurs if the catalogs are opened from a server on a Windows-based computer.
- Original file paths are used instead of new file paths when you are copying items to a new catalog.
- Silverlight 2.0 is not detected correctly by Mozilla Firefox browsers when you are viewing Silverlight HTML galleries.
Issues that this service pack fixes in Windows
- User preference for rendering engine is not used.
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When you right-click to open a file in the default application, the wrong file opens after you sort the files in list view.
- When you move hierarchical keywords, flat keywords may be applied incorrectly to images.
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Scripting annotations garble text that has Unicode characters.
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File paths are broken if the imported folder contains more than 1,024 subfolders.
- When you set a path to the root of a drive, you cannot reset paths.
- Expression Media 2 crashes when you import a file from a folder that was removed from the organize panel.
- Expression Media 2 crashes when an import is canceled and then files are imported from the root of a drive.
- You cannot rename a folder on a network share. Additionally, the folder disappears from the Organize panel.
- Files whose names have more than 64 characters are always imported again when you update folders in the organize panel.
- Additional folders are not added in the organize panel for saved catalogs when the disk volume name is the system default. Typically, the system default is "Local Disk."
- The file size of TIFF RAW files from Phase One Digital Backs seems to be large in a catalog.
- Random numbers may be displayed on catalog folders if the disk does not have a volume name.
- HTML gallery links show question marks when the gallery is viewed in Mozilla Firefox browsers.
- Thumbnails cannot honor a file's embedded color profile.
Note Thumbnails should be rebuilt after you install this service pack.
Issues that this service pack fixes in Macintosh
- You cannot import PPT and XLS files.
- "Contact sheet out of range" errors are improved, and the experience for making contact sheets is improved.
- The Batch Rename feature changes Cyrillic characters into question mark characters when you are using the "Strip Diacriticals" function.
- When you use the "Update Folders Now" function, duplicate folders may be shown, and file links may be broken.
Installation details
How to obtain and install the service pack
The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
For more information about Expression Media 2 Service Pack 1, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
957506
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957506/
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Description of Expression Media 2 Service Pack 1
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