PictView "Update Thumbnail" deletes XMP data
Posted: 07 Sep 2014, 14:27
In Salamander 3.03 x64 in a folder, the thumbnails did not appear correctly in Salamander - wrong rotaion, not reflecting cropping etc. I tried to recreate the thumbnails with XnView classic, but it did not help. So I called Salamander > Menu > Plugins > PictView > Update Thumbnail, the dialog told the action would update thumbnails and the rest of the file would not be modified - nice. Afterwards, the thumbnails were shown correctly in Salamander and I did not discover negative side effects (EXIF GPS info still present, IPTC byline & keywords & comments still present,...) so I repeated it for the whole collection. Months later, I discovered that this was the reason why I lost all my XMP rating and color label information so filtering/sorting did not work any more.
To avoid data loss for other users, please change at least the dialog message text "rest of the file will not be modified" ASAP. And of course in the long run, it would be nice if PictView would be able to keep XMP.
To avoid data loss for other users, please change at least the dialog message text "rest of the file will not be modified" ASAP. And of course in the long run, it would be nice if PictView would be able to keep XMP.