Clarify what XnView MP/Tools/Settings/Catalog/Synchronize Folders... does

[mkc73]

Does it go through all the folders listed in the Catalog Maintenance window and remove any file entries in the catalog not present in those?

If Settings/Metadata/automatically import XMP .. to Catalog's Categories is selected does synchronize folders also synchronize Categories in the Catalog?

[xnview]

Does it go through all the folders listed in the Catalog Maintenance window and remove any file entries in the catalog not present in those?

yes

If Settings/Metadata/automatically import XMP .. to Catalog's Categories is selected does synchronize folders also synchronize Categories in the Catalog?

yes for files that have changed

[mkc73]

Thank you for your response.

Just out of interest what would synchronize Categories do to the catalog for a webP file (that has no XMP data) that has changed and has an entry in the catalog - presumably nothing?

How can I populate the category Maintenance window with folders ?
Presumably when I open a folder it goes into the window.
If I use 'right click/Show files in subfolders' presumably it adds sub-folders to the window (recursively?)
Does 'setting/Catalog/Import Folder' populate the window (recursively?) ?

I am still trying to find a good way of initializing a catalog from image category data stored in a directory of images with too many sub-folders to open each manually. I am not sure why clicking on the top folder in the directory and using Show Files in Subfolders does not do what I want but is does not seem to fully recursively populate the catalog from sub-folders?

[xnview]

Just out of interest what would synchronize Categories do to the catalog for a webP file (that has no XMP data) that has changed and has an entry in the catalog - presumably nothing?

If you have a file that has changed, rating&categories will be readed, so you have no XMP or sidecar, rating&categories will be empty

I am still trying to find a good way of initializing a catalog from image category data stored in a directory of images with too many sub-folders to open each manually. I am not sure why clicking on the top folder in the directory and using Show Files in Subfolders does not do what I want but is does not seem to fully recursively populate the catalog from sub-folders?

What's happened? it should work

[mkc73]

Hi Pierre

Cannot reproduce - seems to work OK - presumably I did not wait long enough for all the images to load.