Partial Match at the Beginning - View matches 'Viewport but NOT XnView MP.Partial Match Anywhere - View matches 'Viewport AND XnView MP.Regular Expressions - Uses Regular Expressions to match the sought Category.If in Incremental Search you cannot find the category which you want, pressing the Enter key twice will allow you to create a new category.Īlso, in Tools menu you can choose what action to be done when the Category is found: Assign the Category (default action) or just Open Tree. The latter is useful when you'll do mostly category management actions like moving, renaming etc.Īnother group of actions to be found in Tools menu is Category Management which allows Import/Export lists of categories in standard Controlled Vocabulary format which is compatible with Lightroom and other photo management programs. Here is also present a menu entry to Auto Correct page which allows entering of synonyms (eg. NY for New York) for different categories.ĭad for father) as well as text shortcuts (eg. The Auto Correct module is shared for the entire program, working also at creating/renaming files and folders (you need to have the Tools | Settings | General | File Operations | Use dialog to rename file/folder for this to work) as well as in Copy To. which both support multiple selected categories: In Right-Click Popup Menu the options are self-explaining, the ones which need more explanations are Move to. Will assign a new parent to the selection. Will open a Categories tree (like in Edit. All the items from the selection will be transferred to the target and the selection will be deleted. Will open a Categories tree to select the target. The Category/Keyword Properties Window invoked by Edit. option in Right-Click menu looks like this:Īs you can see, you can rename the category from here.Īlso, in this dialog you change its parent, providing an alternative (sometimes, safer and easier) way to Move to. option discussed above and to drag & drop. In Description box you can enter any text you like. The text will be displayed as a hint when you'll hover the mouse over the category in the Category Tree. You can also assign a Shortcut to any category.

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So if anyone here knows, or can off some other helpful advice, I would be very grateful. I've checked the settings menu, the wiki, and the forums, but so far I haven't found any advice on how I can do something like that. So I assume I just need to tell XnViewMP to go back through my photos and read the category metadata again. I've checked the EXIF, IPTC-IIM, and XMP metadata, and they all still have the correct categories listed for each of my files. Here is the issue though: Although my category structure is perfectly intact, XnView MP now doesn't recognize which photos belong to which categories. I then used Clear all.' to remove the current categories, followed by 'Import Categories File' which successfully restored my categories. In the categories pane, under the dropdown menu, under the 'Categories Management' section, I used 'Export Categories File' to save a copy of my category layout. Hi everyone, I'm having a bit of trouble with XnViewMP's category feature, and I'm hoping you can help me out.

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