'Verify folder' after moving to different drive

[Mke]

Yesterday I moved my main photo collection to a different drive, and remapped the root folder in PSU.

Now, if I verify a folder, PSU goes through the entire process of syncing, building thumbnails and version detection for all photos (almost, except for two or three) in the folder. I presume that this is expected behavior, but isn't it a little excessive, considering that nothing about the images has actually changed? Or is this just a cautious approach? And if so, why isn't it part of the remapping routine?

I guess I'll need to set it verifying all folders overnight, so that everything is updated...

[Mke]

Hmm. Something very odd going on here.

Just spotted that, in the folders that I verified, the 'verified' images have gained extra labels during the verification process. All the labels seem to have been acquired from other images in the same folder. For example, in one folder the number of labels for the first few photos was originally 14, 5, 7 and 7; these changed to 16, 21, 20 and 20. In another it was 8, 6, 9, 9; these changed to 224, 142, 159, 225!

I've now deleted the affected (verified) folders from within PSU, restored the images from backup, and re-imported them into PSU, and they're now OK again. And verifying the folders now finds no change.

I'd really rather not delete all my images and re-import them, nor build an entirely new catalog from the images, but unless someone has a solution to this I'll have to do one or the other...

[vlad]

The reported behavior is indeed very odd. Just curious:

1) Did the verify folder find any new images?
2) Did any verified images get merged into version sets? (I'm asking because all versions must eventually share the same label set; as a matter of fact, I am now realizing that I have no idea what happens if someone creates a version set out of images with different labels - do all those label automatically get assigned to all versions?)

[Mke]

1) Did the verify folder find any new images?

No - just "file changed". For example in one folder it finds 'file changed' for 131 out of 141 images, in another 89 out of 90.

2) Did any verified images get merged into version sets? (I'm asking because all versions must eventually share the same label set; as a matter of fact, I am now realizing that I have no idea what happens if someone creates a version set out of images with different labels - do all those label automatically get assigned to all versions?)

I have quite high proportion of version sets; I didn't spot any new ones. And labels are assigned to all images in a version set - so not a factor.

[Mke]

Mantis ticket #2901 opened.