Folder ratings disappear

[Ilikemyprivacy]

When I give folders a rating the rating sometimes disappears. Is there a way to keep the rating on a folder permanently? Picture ratings don't disappear do they? I really rely on the ratings to sort through a sea of pictures.

[xnview]

do you have a way to reproduce this problem?

[Ilikemyprivacy]

Unfortunately I don't, I can tell you what happened last time but when I try to replicate it nothing changes. I go through a folder and give ratings to pictures, then I rate the folder based on the highest rated picture, then next time I want to view the best pictures of an album I select the album, select the star rating, only the folders with the appropriate rating show up, I select one folder, select the star rating to show only the highest rated pictures, select all pictures, select "open all selected," pressed the up arrow to the folder lists and all the folders lost their ratings.

That is what happened last time.

EDIT: I should clarify, by up arrow I mean that green arrow with a curved tail to the left of the folder address on the menu with the star ratings.

[Ilikemyprivacy]

do you have a way to reproduce this problem?

It happened again and when I did the same thing. It's not easily reproducible but if I go into a folder, select a star to show only pictures with that rating, then press the green upward arrow to go back to the list of folders without undoing the star selection (I don't know what else to call it) then the folders lose their star rating.

I just updated xnview to the most recent build today before it happened.

EDIT: And by not easily replicatable I mean if I try to do the same thing again to get the same results it doesn't always do it. It's just a glitch that occasionally happens if I forget to undo the star selector.

[xnview]

EDIT: And by not easily replicatable I mean if I try to do the same thing again to get the same results it doesn't always do it. It's just a glitch that occasionally happens if I forget to undo the star selector.

Please tell me if you have it always with 1.8.4

[Ilikemyprivacy]

Whoa a strange thing just happened. I didn't know what version I had so I

1. looked up the app in my search bar
2. opened file location
3. it was a shortcut so I left clicked it to open the shortcut location
4. found the app hoping the version would be on the exe (it wasn't)
5. clicked on the exe
6. It asked if I wanted to restore the session (I didn't save a session but I said yes to see what it was talking about)
7. It opened a session I had open a long time ago.

Do I have two separate xnviews? Because I thought xnview always looked in the same place since I downloaded it, C:\Users\(my user name)\AppData\Roaming\XnViewMP. Isn't that where sessions are stored? How did I get two sessions?

By the way I eventually found my version in help/About. It's 1.8.0 which I'm assuming isn't the latest version even though I re-downloaded the 64 bit version for windows this February on the 1st of this year. Am I updating it wrong?

EDIT: By the way, the xnview that opened an old session was the one in my Program Files while the xnview I always open is the icon I have saved to my taskbar.

ANOTHER EDIT: I figured it out. My taskbar xnview isn't the installed one, it's a stand alone program on an external. I updated the wrong one. I do have two programs. Let me update it and get back to you.

[Ilikemyprivacy]

OK, I switched to the newer XnView, it says 1.8.3 for 64-bit windows. I will let you know if I still have the problem of folder ratings disappearing. I may have just had an old version.

[Hancer]

Hi,

I am using 1.8.7 64bit version and no matter what I tried, I simply cannot set a persistent rating to a folder. When I change directories, the rating dissapears. Any workarounds?

EDIT:
I reinstalled the app and problem resolved, but I lost my previously rated folders for goood. At least, folder ratings are working now. I dont know what went wrong though....

[user0]

I am using 1.8.7 64bit version and no matter what I tried, I simply cannot set a persistent rating to a folder. When I change directories, the rating dissapears. Any workarounds?

Catalog should be enabled (default state) in order to keep folder metadata.

If you have issues with enabled Catalog - you can try the following, checking after each step:
1. rename XnView.db
2. rename xnview.ini
3. reinstall app, deleting all app files (make backup if required)