1.98.7 Losing some XMP-data on writing valid+invalid files

[Leonidas]

Hi,

my (peculiar) workflow leads to this bug, which persists also today in XnView 1.98.7 under Windows7 64.

• tag the JPG in XnViewMP with XMP-Rating
• delete pictures based on the Rating
• edit pictures in XnView
• rename RAW-files to .JPG to match them with WinMerge
• set IPTC + XMP data of all files (including the renamed RAW) in the directory with XnView

The last step led often to a vanishing Rating in the XMP metadata. Today I finally found out how to reproduce this error. RAW-files normally can't be IPTC-edited by XnView, but my renaming leads to XnView trying to update these invalid files too.

So, if on using "Edit IPTC data" on multiple files ...

• invalid files, like NEF/RAW that have been renamed to JPG are present in the "Edit IPTC data"-list
• "Update or create XMP" is toggled
• all the valid and invalid files are updated at once

... then the XMP metadata in the valid JPGs too is overwritten with the XMP without Rating.

I uploaded two test-files with XMP-Rating to use and a screenshot of the settings I used. The actually metadata in the "Edit IPTC data" wasn't of importance.

http://flunzel.de/download/testdata.zip (16 MiB)
http://flunzel.de/download/testsettings.png