XnView Software

Thanks again for describing the 2 means of persistance and the 2 worlds of data/label design that live in each.
I now understand that the Write button is the immediate and manual way to do what I intend to Never do which is to write back into the tag region of an image file. Writing to image file ...

I hope XnView will still consider to more explicit IN configuration labels and buttons to allow first time users to run with certainty that writing to original image files is positively excluded.
This is valuable to a first time user who is not immediately aware of the 2 paradigms of persisting ...

Thanks for the showing that the R click "Edit categories persist in the database and categories are like keywords categories in IPTC and XMP
Ihave become confused by the shared teminology. So I think that the category manager and the addition of "set definitions" is a tool just for the these ...

I am new to xnview and wanting to understand which types of user defined metadata are stored external without requiring embedding within each image file.
Comments are user derived and have a foot print in the "descript.ion" file for each folder known to xnview.
Comments seem to be created only ...

My question for xnview is how it most safely serves users who need a pure organizer first and foremost . These are users who will separately and later turn attention to modifying images. It is great that XNView has modifier tools, but what are the pure organizer tools and how are they safely ...