XnView Software

this is the file I used for my test

If you can't reproduce it, it may perhaps be a question of saving temporary working data somewhere on the disk, for example because
- database is disabled (>settings >catalog > "enable catalog" off)
- Personnaly, I try to set up my windows to forbid writing in ...

One of the 2 ways for rating a jpeg seems to be wrong:

starting point = jpeg with color profile (significantly larger than sRVB)

rating with >tools >metadata >edit xmp , then save : is ok (but quite long)

rating with direct clic on the thumbnail in browser-view
then changing viewed picture and ...

Just tested v 1.4.0, and the matter is always there

In my mind , there are 2 points to solve:

1. to give the ability to choose the color profile when saving the result of a modification (with save, save as, or export) exactly as ">Tools >Batch convert..." or XnConvert do it

2. probably more ...