MP: Multiple Computers and Categories
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 10:09 am
I have been digging around and haven't come up with a solid answer so I will try to explain.
I have two computers, a desktop, and a laptop. With my desktop I have started to use the categories to start applying them to my photos and pictures which then gets added to the categories filter found usually on the left pane.
I have found out that I can export a .txt file which I carried to my laptop so now both XnViewMP on my laptop and desktop share the same tags. Yey.
But there is something in this mix that is missing as indeed it carried over the categories but all the associated pictures, which is on an external drive and is the same drive when used with the desktop, isn't showing the tags or categories that were assigned to them on the laptop.
I have read multiple threads and many of them talk about a database and updating a database and .db files. There are no .db files what so ever unless XnViewMP generates this file, it isn't in any documentation. Then I read something about INFP or what ever the term is, data and syncing that, but no pictures contain that data, just the tags from XnViewMP.
So to simply put it: How do I, if possible,
Use an external drive for pictures,
Carry that drive between two computers
while maintaining the tags/categories that were associated by XnViewMP on those pictures?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
I have two computers, a desktop, and a laptop. With my desktop I have started to use the categories to start applying them to my photos and pictures which then gets added to the categories filter found usually on the left pane.
I have found out that I can export a .txt file which I carried to my laptop so now both XnViewMP on my laptop and desktop share the same tags. Yey.
But there is something in this mix that is missing as indeed it carried over the categories but all the associated pictures, which is on an external drive and is the same drive when used with the desktop, isn't showing the tags or categories that were assigned to them on the laptop.
I have read multiple threads and many of them talk about a database and updating a database and .db files. There are no .db files what so ever unless XnViewMP generates this file, it isn't in any documentation. Then I read something about INFP or what ever the term is, data and syncing that, but no pictures contain that data, just the tags from XnViewMP.
So to simply put it: How do I, if possible,
Use an external drive for pictures,
Carry that drive between two computers
while maintaining the tags/categories that were associated by XnViewMP on those pictures?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.