IPTC caption not saving if entered in view mode
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 8:49 pm
Hello,
I've just installed XnView MP 0.92 on Linux Mint 19.1 and I'm working through my photo collection, mainly adding captions.
I've just gone through a folder of 20 photos, working through them in view mode (ie. full-size photo after double-clicking the thumbnail, but not full-screen), pressing Ctrl-I and filling in the Caption box before clicking Apply. I have the information panel on the screen configured to include {IPTC:Caption} and it appears shortly after clicking the Apply button, then I move onto the next photo. All well and good.
After finishing the 20 photos, I've gone back through them all, and the captions have all disappeared from all of them
. No caption appears in the information panel, and going back into the Ctrl-I box, there's no caption in there either. I went back and re-captioned about 5 of them as before, the caption appeared in the panel before I moved on, but on going back to the photos again the captions had vanished again.
After a bit of cursing and swearing, I've found that if I add the captions from thumbnail mode, doing Ctrl-I as before on each one, they stay put - I've configured the thumbnail view to include the caption beneath each one, and they've all stayed on, and they all show on the photo when opened full-screen.
Is there a setting I've missed somewhere, or have I uncovered a bug?
EDIT - the photos in question are all JPEG's
I've just installed XnView MP 0.92 on Linux Mint 19.1 and I'm working through my photo collection, mainly adding captions.
I've just gone through a folder of 20 photos, working through them in view mode (ie. full-size photo after double-clicking the thumbnail, but not full-screen), pressing Ctrl-I and filling in the Caption box before clicking Apply. I have the information panel on the screen configured to include {IPTC:Caption} and it appears shortly after clicking the Apply button, then I move onto the next photo. All well and good.
After finishing the 20 photos, I've gone back through them all, and the captions have all disappeared from all of them
. No caption appears in the information panel, and going back into the Ctrl-I box, there's no caption in there either. I went back and re-captioned about 5 of them as before, the caption appeared in the panel before I moved on, but on going back to the photos again the captions had vanished again.After a bit of cursing and swearing, I've found that if I add the captions from thumbnail mode, doing Ctrl-I as before on each one, they stay put - I've configured the thumbnail view to include the caption beneath each one, and they've all stayed on, and they all show on the photo when opened full-screen.
Is there a setting I've missed somewhere, or have I uncovered a bug?
EDIT - the photos in question are all JPEG's