Exported categories don't show up in "Edit IPTC/XMP..."

by jonha4711 (Posted Tue May 24, 2016 1:48 pm)

xnview wrote:XnViewMP write dc and lr, read dc AND lr. Please post screenshots to show the problem?

OK, another attempt to explain what happens. Let's start with the following categories:
Europe
World
Local
Other
..Test
....Local

There are four main categories; Test is a subcategory of Other and Local a subcategory of Test.

No photo has any categories defined. I select one photo and click on category Local (option "Automatically apply parent keywords" is set, so categories Test and Other are now auto-selected).
The categories tab and the dialog to Edit IPTC/XMP now look like this:

Please note that the Edit dialog shows no hierarchical tags although they are visible in the XMP tab:


Now I copy the image file to a temp directory and delete the image file from within XnViewMP, The categories in Categories Filter are duly removed:

Now I copy the image file back into the original directory; I have set the option to "Import XMP subject or IPTC keyword to DB categories". After this, sometimes the categories in the Categories tab are updated and sometimes they are not (it is not clear what triggers this). What is worse is that Categories Filter shows the categories as expected:

but when I then select one of the categories (here Local) the image is not shown in . This is reproducible and happens even after a restart.

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