Tags not shown using address location with different case

[Millzey]

I was wondering if this was normal.

If I tag files in a folder called c:\Listened, and then browse/list or quick search the folder with different case such as "listened" or "c:\LISTENED", the tags no longer show up. The same happens for browsing a path from from a directory junction/symlink contained tagged files/folders. This drove me crazy trying to figure out why one pane was missing tags, if it was by design/bug or user error. If I retagged it, it would then disappear from the other tab.

One must pick a naming case and stick with it for tagged items, or you'll be hunting down all the previous references to ensure the tags show up (catalog, quick search queries, junctions). I did notice that when changing the case of a folder, it updates the path in the address bar in all open tabs.

Current ver 17.00.2

[admin]

This has been fixed in v15.00.0322 - 2015-04-14 16:41:

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    ! Browsing through the Address Bar was too tolerant when paths with wrong 
      capitalization were typed or pasted in. While Windows itself does not care 
      too much either, XY's tagging DB needs it perfectly correct. Fixed.

I'm not able to reproduce any issue with 17.00.



EDIT: Aha, with QuickSearch there is indeed a problem! Gonna fix...

[admin]

Fixed in v17.00.0209.

[william]

This appears to be the same issue. The label or tag I apply to a file doesn't persist if I access the containing folder via another path through a junction, and vice-versa.
If tags etc. are path-dependent I can understand, but when I drag the folder to the catalog from a path X that includes the junction and then access it from the catalog, I get the other path instead of X and I don't get the tag/label that I applied when viewing the folder in path X.
XY v17.60.0100 on Win10.

[admin]

So the junction target has the wrong capitalization?

[william]

No, sorry, guess I posted in the wrong thread. My issues are

(1) the tags I assign to file
D:\<junction to target MyFolder>\MyFile
aren't shown by XY when I select file
D:\<direct path to MyFolder>\MyFile.

(2) after I drag the tagged file D:\<junction to target MyFolder>\MyFile to the Catalog, right-click MyFile in the Catalog and select "Go to," the list shows MyFile selected in folder D:\<direct path to MyFolder> and no tags are shown. To see the tags I have to go back to the path that includes the junction, where I originally tagged and dragged MyFile from.

Regards,
-- William

[william]

On (2) above, I've checked that the properties of the catalog item show the path through the junction, but it opens the direct path instead of the junction when I select it in the catalog.

[admin]

Tags are stored with hard paths. Junctions are not resolved (that would be too slow). So what you see is by design.

[william]

OK, thanks for the prompt resolution.