OS: All Windows platforms
This bug report is about the manual refresh: A manual refresh triggered via View » Refresh (F5 key) should update both folder tree and file list. Refresh problems are mentioned in several bug reports. Sometimes, XnView doesn't automatically refresh folder tree and/or file list. This is not too bad as long as a manual works properly.
Effect: Unexpected behaviour. Can make work cumbersome.
Priority: High (If manual refresh worked properly, the relevance of the bugs in the automatic update would become much lower.)
To reproduce (most steps are copied from vertigo's bug report below):
1. Browse to folder in network
2. In Explorer, add or modify a folder in the folder from step 1
3. Go back to XnView and notice directory tree (left pane) does not reflect the change
4. Also notice that it is updated in the right pane
5. Press F5 (Manual refresh)
Actual behaviour (bug): File list is updated. Folder tree is not updated.
Expected behaviour: Both file list and folder tree are updated.
Note:
- In case a combined update of both folder tree and file list is not feasible for performance or other reasons, there could be two menu entries for triggering a manual refresh and one triggered with F5 and one with Ctrl+F5 (forced Refresh). From user perspective a combined manual refresh, i.e one menu entry "Refresh" (F5) (both folder tree and file list) is by far the better choice.
Related topic:
- 0.84: Network folders don't update in tree when changed
