How to lose your work when tagging files

by m.Th. (Posted Fri Apr 22, 2016 12:40 pm)
There is a nasty bug which can hit you without ever knowing.

In few words, you can select 100 files from 2,000 and you will end copying / converting only 30 without any „error”.

How come?

Steps:

0. Make sure that you have XnViewMP set to rather big thumbnails in a folder with many, many files (800-1000 or more).
1. Start to tag enough files (let's say 40) but be sure to tag them from all parts of the folder: begin, middle, end. Do not tag all files only from the beginning.
2. When you end with step 1 go to another folder and back. The thumbs in our folder are reloaded and the first thumbnail is selected.
3. Now go to View | Filter By | Tagged File(s)

Expected: All 40 files tagged in the current directory should show up.

Actual: Only several (first) files are shown.

Cause: It seems that filter is applied ONLY on the thumbs already (re)loaded in memory at step 2.

To show all tagged files, do:

1. Go to View | Filter By | All to show all files.
2. Scroll down in thumbs pane to „see” all the thumbs (this forces the program to load them all)
3. Now go to View | Filter By | Tagged File(s) - you will see all the tagged files.

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