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Uncatgorized Section showing things that are Categorized

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I accidentally deleted one of my categories. I fixed this by select all of the images and doing View -> Update catalog from files. That brought back the category that I had accidentally deleted. But now all the images that were affected by the deleted category now shows up in the Categorized section even though they're already tagged! Is this a bug or is there something that I need to do?
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I just realized that everything in my catalog has double of every image! The actual files are not duplicated on my harddrive. But within xnviewmp, it shows double. Please help!
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do you use only catalog, or xmp too for categories?
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I only use catalog. No XMP. Is this recommended btw?
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rinthe wrote: Fri Jul 20, 2018 4:25 pm I only use catalog. No XMP. Is this recommended btw?
is it possible to have your catalog file?
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xnview wrote: Sun Aug 05, 2018 2:56 pm
rinthe wrote: Fri Jul 20, 2018 4:25 pm I only use catalog. No XMP. Is this recommended btw?
is it possible to have your catalog file?
Is XnView.db the catalog file? If so, I've PM'ed you a link to my catalog file.

Also I recently got a new laptop and I used XnViewMP to access the library over the network. I added the folder with all the images and let it rebuild catalog from scratch on the laptop. Everything was good except there were about 33000 images that's showing up under "Uncatagorized" But when I select those images and hit control + i for Edit IPTIC-IIM/SMP and Keywords Tab, it shows the category in there. Any ideas?
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rinthe wrote: Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:17 pm Is XnView.db the catalog file?
yes, which file do you have twice?
Also I recently got a new laptop and I used XnViewMP to access the library over the network. I added the folder with all the images and let it rebuild catalog from scratch on the laptop. Everything was good except there were about 33000 images that's showing up under "Uncatagorized" But when I select those images and hit control + i for Edit IPTIC-IIM/SMP and Keywords Tab, it shows the category in there. Any ideas?
and if you put one file with keywords and not categorized in an empty folder, and browse it, categories are good?
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I don't have any file twice. In the catalog directory there are 3 of these .ini files though: iptc.ini, iptc.ini.I19408, iptc.ini.Z19732
xnview wrote: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:18 am and if you put one file with keywords and not categorized in an empty folder, and browse it, categories are good?
Ya if the empty folder is not excluded by me, it'll extract the keywords and add them as catagories. Did you have a chance to take a look at my catalog file?
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rinthe wrote: Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:10 pm I don't have any file twice. In the catalog directory there are 3 of these .ini files though: iptc.ini, iptc.ini.I19408, iptc.ini.Z19732
i means which is twice in one category?
xnview wrote: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:18 am and if you put one file with keywords and not categorized in an empty folder, and browse it, categories are good?
Ya if the empty folder is not excluded by me, it'll extract the keywords and add them as catagories. Did you have a chance to take a look at my catalog file?
and only once in the categories?
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I don't know what you mean by twice in one category. I have images that have keywords attached to them. But when i build my catelog from scratch, a lot of them show up in "Uncategorized" under special items instead.
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could you tell me whcih file is affected by the problem?
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xnview wrote: Sat Aug 11, 2018 1:23 pm could you tell me whcih file is affected by the problem?
2018.08.01_SS_0851.png and 2018.08.01_SS_0850 for example.
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rinthe wrote: Sat Aug 11, 2018 6:02 pm 2018.08.01_SS_0851.png
this file is not in 'Avengers: Infinity War (2018)' category?
If i try 'uncategorized', i have only 7 files
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xnview wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 7:59 am
rinthe wrote: Sat Aug 11, 2018 6:02 pm 2018.08.01_SS_0851.png
this file is not in 'Avengers: Infinity War (2018)' category?
If i try 'uncategorized', i have only 7 files
It is in the category on my main computer. But on my new computer. where I built a new catalog from scratch. It failed to extract keywords from many of the images.
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rinthe wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:25 pm It is in the category on my main computer. But on my new computer. where I built a new catalog from scratch. It failed to extract keywords from many of the images.
and same settings? The .db that you have sent to me is from main computer?
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