XnView Software

How can the Rating and Colour Label be imported from a file, if the data is in the XMP?

toralf

It's automatic

Thank you Pierre,

I tried it several times, but it doesn't always do it automatically after a Batch Convert with "keep metadata".
The properties showed that the XMP metadata was maintained. But the rating, color label or category wasn't actively set (consistently).
A rebuild db from files solved the problem.
Above I wrote consistently, because when I tried to duplicate it today it partially did it, but not all the time. I'll continue to try to reproduce it.

ciao
toralf

toralf wrote:Thank you Pierre,

I tried it several times, but it doesn't always do it automatically after a Batch Convert with "keep metadata".
The properties showed that the XMP metadata was maintained. But the rating, color label or category wasn't actively set (consistently).
A rebuild db from files solved the problem.
Above I wrote consistently, because when I tried to duplicate it today it partially did it, but not all the time. I'll continue to try to reproduce it.

ciao
toralf

Generally it should work. However keep an eye to:

- different file types in the case of embedded metadata
- different sources (eg. from Lightroom, from ASP etc.) for XMP sidecars
- also for sidecars have a look at different encoding(s) (locale, UTF-8 etc.)

Good luck!

It seems indeed that XnViewMP reads xmp-files but doesn't show the results. I attach a picture. It was made after building a new databas from files. You can see on the left site that the picture is chosen correctly by category (here "Tiere | sonstiges"). But the thumbnail doesn't show the yellow flag for tagged file, and on the right you can see that the corresponding categories are not marked. It occurs only for those files that doesn't have embedded metadata but sidecar xmp files.

hic wrote:It seems indeed that XnViewMP reads xmp-files but doesn't show the results. I attach a picture. It was made after building a new databas from files. You can see on the left site that the picture is chosen correctly by category (here "Tiere | sonstiges"). But the thumbnail doesn't show the yellow flag for tagged file, and on the right you can see that the corresponding categories are not marked. It occurs only for those files that doesn't have embedded metadata but sidecar xmp files.

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Please try the other filters: Color & Rate/Star. They behave the same?

Also if you force a refresh (go to another folder and back) the problem persists?

Even worse. If I now update files from database, the xmp info for keywords, ratings and colour are completely reset in the sidecar.

hic.

hic wrote:It seems indeed that XnViewMP reads xmp-files but doesn't show the results. I attach a picture. It was made after building a new databas from files. You can see on the left site that the picture is chosen correctly by category (here "Tiere | sonstiges"). But the thumbnail doesn't show the yellow flag for tagged file, and on the right you can see that the corresponding categories are not marked. It occurs only for those files that doesn't have embedded metadata but sidecar xmp files.

couldyou send me your file+sidecar?