XnView Software

Why are pictures sometimes displayed twice, even though they are only saved once on the hard disk? This can be observed in the category selection. When choosing a folder, everything works as expected (once).

do you use settings>Catalog - base folder?

I dont understand your answer-question. Yes, in "Einstellungen/Katalog/Basispfad" is noted the correct path of all of my pictures.

MichaelP wrote: Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:43 am I dont understand your answer-question. Yes, in "Einstellungen/Katalog/Basispfad" is noted the correct path of all of my pictures.

do you have set the 'base folder' on a clean catalog? Perhaps you had browsed folders before?

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately again I don't understand it. What does "clean catalog" mean?
I don't know when I defined the "base folder" an what I am doing before.
Is there a possibility of reorganization that removes such duplicates from the catalog?

Is it a reason to use 'base path'? Do you use a networked path?

Is not a network-path, but another partition of the same PC.
And yes, Im using a "base-folder".

Is there no solution at all?

MichaelP wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:22 pm Is not a network-path, but another partition of the same PC.
And yes, Im using a "base-folder".

'base path' is only needed when you use more than 1 computer

I deleted the base path. Some pictures are still duplicated. But others than before.

My analysis: The folder in which the images are located has been renamed. XnView shows the image under the old and new folder-name. None can be opened with a double click. This is only a problem with "Kategorienfilter". In the "Ordner"-View it works correct.

How can I update the XnView database?

you need to remove all entries starting with @, and browse your folders

... and what does "browse your folders" mean?
I used "Miniaturbilder neu erstellen". At least no more duplicates are shown now.
But some @-entries come again.

MichaelP wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 4:37 pm But some @-entries come again.

you don't have anymore a base path??

In the line "Basispfad" is only a backslash like in the screenshot above.

Once I had the same problem which occurred since I had connected an external hard drive for backups (but I think the Categories were created already).

The thumbs were stile double even after disconnecting the external drive (probably they were cached).
But I remember I had set a 'base path' .

That matches actually the explanation of the base path.