Location of picture's changed! Categories?

[masterdrummer]

Hi Guys.

I am using XnViewMP Version 0.84. Because i am working on different computers i installed it on an USB Drive.
Everything worked fine, all of my 10k+ pictures have a category and a Rating.

When i attach the USB drive to a computer and it get's another drive letter than bevfore everythink is broken. Xnview does not show me my pictures when i click on the category.
Everything (category and rating) ist stored in iptc and/or xmp.

Is there any way to get everything to work again?
Can i just get xnview to like import the categories from the files and write that to the db?
Or ist there a way to edit the xnview.db to change the location of the pictures from like N:/.... to O:/....

best regards,
- Alex

[xnview]

When i attach the USB drive to a computer and it get's another drive letter than bevfore everythink is broken. Xnview does not show me my pictures when i click on the category.
Everything (category and rating) ist stored in iptc and/or xmp.

XnView stores categories/rating in database, with the pathname of pictures. So if you change the drive letter, it can't know how to get them.

Is there any way to get everything to work again?
Can i just get xnview to like import the categories from the files and write that to the db?
Or ist there a way to edit the xnview.db to change the location of the pictures from like N:/.... to O:/....

you can edit the database or use 'relocate' in settings>Catalog

[alobo]

you can edit the database or use 'relocate' in settings>Catalog

To solve the same problem, I use relocate from e.g.

Old Path: D:\FOTOS\BDNMar\
New Path: E:\FOTOS\BDNMar\

Click OK and nothing changes.

Agus

[xnview]

the path are not changed?

[alobo]

the path are not changed?

No, look the consecutive screenshots: after OK in captura2, nothing changes (captura3).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pr4h1q7d62tj6 ... 1.JPG?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jgqdzfadqwvi2 ... 2.JPG?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uycbismwqubuv ... 3.JPG?dl=0

Agus

[xnview]

Thanks to your detailed description I can reproduce

[alobo]

Thanks to your detailed description I can reproduce

Just updated to Version 0.92 64bits (Sep 18 2018) but the problem persists.
Is this problem going to be fixed soon?
Thanks

[viewfan]

I have the same Problem
@xnview

you can edit the database ...

which encoding has the databas? Which encoding do I have set to edit it on linux with Kate for instance?

[viewfan]

I found a solution. See this thread down.

viewtopic.php?f=82&t=38046&p=152521#p152521

[alobo]

I found a solution. See this thread down.

viewtopic.php?f=82&t=38046&p=152521#p152521

Thanks!
...but this is a workaround, not a solution. The solution is having relocate fixed, and unfortunately
we do not get an answer on whether this is being worked for the next release.
Agus

[xnview]

the bug will be fixed

[xnview]

See issue for current status and some details.

[xnview]

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 0.94. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.