XnView Software

Ok, I've figured out what the issue was.

In short - XnViewMP's database dbFolder can be set to a non-existing folder through `xnview.ini` file. It doesn't seem to create the folder if it doesn't exist, yet the program will work as if everything was fine.

You can create ratings and categories ...

And any idea on how were they removed from the database? Like I say, I was using the software normally, they just disappeared magically one day.

I understand. That seems to be exactly my problem. That rating, and all the other ones are gone. I think this isn't the expected behaviour, right?

If I remember correctly, the ratings got corrupted/deleted when I pressed delete to remove all photos with rating '1', but then clicked 'cancel'.

Sorry, I don't know what does that mean. Have I sent you a wrong database file? Like I say, that image had a star rating just before they all disappeared.

Sorry, I'm not sure I'm following. When you say 'in your catalog', what are you referring to?

The files are there on the hard drive, nothing has changed. I've uploaded the screenshot online, you can see it here:

https://i.ibb.co/pyJBwMS/Screenshot-2023-06-22-085634.png

https://i.ibb.co/pyJBwMS ...

For example:

"C:\photos\sorted\BO_sucre_23_05\IMG_0037.JPG"

I've attached a screenshot to demonstrate. (Edit: I tried to but board quota has been reached - can I email you the screenshot?)

Note, that none of them show ratings.

Hi! All of the sudden my current star ratings stopped working.

I was just going through some photos, and after copying some of them the star ratings are all gone.

I can make new stars, but all of my old star ratings disappeared. The database file is still here, contains some 146mb of data.

You ...