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Tags not persistent when changing folder

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:15 pm
by Gwenael Q.
Hello,

- tag images on a SD card (drive E on following capture screen)
- go to another folder on main drive (D on following capture screen)
- come back to first folder. Tags are gone...

Thanks for listening.

XnviewMP 1.4.3

Capture screen (gif) :
Tag issue.gif.gif

Re: Tags not persistant when changing folder

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 10:28 pm
by Franky
Hi,

Does that only do it on your SD card ?

Edit:
I have just tested and that's right the tags disappear when changing folder on SD card.
It works if I stay on the hard drive.

Re: Tags not persistent when changing folder

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2023 7:41 am
by xnview
Catalog features are disabled for removable drive

Re: Tags not persistent when changing folder

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 5:39 pm
by Gwenael Q.
Hello,
Catalog features are disabled for removable drive
That's is what I supposed. So this behaviour is by design. But I regret to say that this design result in a bad user experience !! Tags lost along the way is a pain...

I see tagging as a (semi-)temporary way of selecting images across several folders in order to help manage, organize, and viewing images. This kind of "sticky selection" is very useful but must be reliable ! Tags should be available and reliable for all images accessed through XnviewMP. May I suggest to:

- Internally save list of tagged files in a temporary file separated from the catalogue ?

If not, at the very least, tags shouldn't be lost without a warning like : "You are leaving a removable drive folder, tags will be lost, please consider using "Create > File listing" is you want to save the tag selection"

Thanks for listening

Re: Tags not persistent when changing folder

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:32 pm
by xnview
ok...

Re: Tags not persistent when changing folder

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 12:45 pm
by xnview
i come back to this post, if you uncheck 'Settings>Catalog - Excluded - Always exclude...'?