by antineff (Posted Mon Oct 10, 2016 6:47 pm)
In the meantime, I started to understand the interaction of IPTC keywords and categories: Creating a catalog reads the IPTC tags and creates categories from them. But creating a categorie does not automatically create the same keyword within the IPTC tag. I have to use the Ctrl-I dialog for that. Knowing about that makes everything much easier!![:)]( "Smile")
Also I got the hint for the checkboxes within the settings from another threat in the meantime.
So, if I understood your question correctly: Yes, I now know how to write the IPTC tags with XnView and I'm heavily using that now! So, sorry for creating that excursion to that little off topic, but the problem described in the top posting is still existing!
The workaround I use for now is to delete both DB files Thumb.db and XnView.db, then create a new catalog and let all categories be created from the IPTC tag. At last I make a copy of both DB files, from which I can recover when the original DB is corrupted again (simply copy back). I'd recommend to do the copy right before you plan to struggle with the categories. Of course all changes between the copy and the corruption are gone.
Also, this little trick costs about 4 Gigs of extra space, in my case! And it can get time consuming if you must recover quite often. A fix ist highly appreciated! (Like all the thousands of other things, I guess!![;)]( "Wink")
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In the meantime, I started to understand the interaction of IPTC keywords and categories: Creating a catalog reads the IPTC tags and creates categories from them. But creating a categorie does not automatically create the same keyword within the IPTC tag. I have to use the Ctrl-I dialog for that. Knowing about that makes everything much easier!
Also I got the hint for the checkboxes within the settings from another threat in the meantime.So, if I understood your question correctly: Yes, I now know how to write the IPTC tags with XnView and I'm heavily using that now! So, sorry for creating that excursion to that little off topic, but the problem described in the top posting is still existing!
The workaround I use for now is to delete both DB files Thumb.db and XnView.db, then create a new catalog and let all categories be created from the IPTC tag. At last I make a copy of both DB files, from which I can recover when the original DB is corrupted again (simply copy back). I'd recommend to do the copy right before you plan to struggle with the categories. Of course all changes between the copy and the corruption are gone.
Also, this little trick costs about 4 Gigs of extra space, in my case! And it can get time consuming if you must recover quite often. A fix ist highly appreciated! (Like all the thousands of other things, I guess!
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