by XnView-User (Posted Fri Mar 11, 2016 11:57 am)
Yes Pierre, I categorized around 1000 files which took me many days. And yes, afterwards I renamed quite a lot and also moved them to other or new folders (which is a common practice I believe) with the result that the formerly given categories are lost.
So back to the initial problem please:
It’s all about the “category.db” which doesn’t follow changes with file-names or -paths. With this persisting bug in the categories feature in your classic XnView application, here with no automatic refresh of the “category.db” or at least a manual possibility to do so, the categories feature in my opinion is useless.
Therefore I am now thinking about switching to your new XnViewMP application.
But how could I move from XnView to XnViewMP with all(!) my old settings?
I already tried to paste my old xnview.ini in XnViewMP to have the same layout, menue-orders etc. as in XnView, but this didn’t really work.
But most importantly:
As I see there isn’t a “category.db” in XnViewMP. So how can I import or transfer my “category.db” to XnView MP? And secondly, does the category database from XnViewMP follow changes with file-names or file-paths or would I be confronted with the same problem like in XnView, here with lost categories after file-operations like rename or move?
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Yes Pierre, I categorized around 1000 files which took me many days. And yes, afterwards I renamed quite a lot and also moved them to other or new folders (which is a common practice I believe) with the result that the formerly given categories are lost.
So back to the initial problem please:
It’s all about the “category.db” which doesn’t follow changes with file-names or -paths. With this persisting bug in the categories feature in your classic XnView application, here with no automatic refresh of the “category.db” or at least a manual possibility to do so, the categories feature in my opinion is useless.
Therefore I am now thinking about switching to your new XnViewMP application.
But how could I move from XnView to XnViewMP with all(!) my old settings?
I already tried to paste my old xnview.ini in XnViewMP to have the same layout, menue-orders etc. as in XnView, but this didn’t really work.
But most importantly:
As I see there isn’t a “category.db” in XnViewMP. So how can I import or transfer my “category.db” to XnView MP? And secondly, does the category database from XnViewMP follow changes with file-names or file-paths or would I be confronted with the same problem like in XnView, here with lost categories after file-operations like rename or move?
Read Main Topic