All custom categories gone XnView MP

[derrick]

Hi there, not sure what happened but I went to the Catalog Filter and noticed all of the custom categories I created for images are now gone. I had about a dozen of them and across my categories had several hundred images catalogued.

The images did not change location and they are still viewable. My Favorites that I created in XnView MP are still however in there.

Was there something that could cause this ? Is there any backup location for where the categories are stored ?

Using v1.6.1 64-bit (Linux)

[xnview]

In Settings>Path, you have access to xnview.db, could you send me it?

[vincentparez]

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem than Derrick.
I have created tens of customised categories, assigned these custom categories to hundred of pictures.
And this morning, it just gone. No more categories.
By chance, I have exported previously the list of file with the categories assigned. How can I reimport categories and association ?

Attached the xnview.db file and the csv file where I just remove the quotes for txt and change the delimitator (; instead of

[xnview]

Attached the xnview.db file and the csv file where I just remove the quotes for txt and change the delimitator (; instead of

Really strange, the categories table are like the first time you create the catalog. But the exported file is xml not csv??

[vincentparez]

Sorry for the misundertanding. By csv file I was talking about the file you can get by the functionnality that export the list of files of your catalog with theit categories (see screenshot)

[xnview]

to export/import categories, you have "File's categories' menu in Categories panel. There is no direct way to import csv
you need to change the csv like exported categories file