IMatch 2025.4.4 Released - some questions

[Stenis]

This version is supposed to make use of the latest version of the database you use in iMatch. I want to ask if that has been the resons to why some of my settings and a few other things have seemed to be altered by this version upgrade?

1. First, I noticed that some of my portrait pictures that I have spent some time correcting before now is in landscape again. Pretty disturbing - why is that happening?

2. Since I always like to see both my RAW and the JPEG-files that I always keep in one or several subdirectories I had that configured too but that was changed too so only the RAW was displayed. I never change that setting by myself.

3. Some of my newly applied subdirectories was not displayed at all. So, I had to remove and append those folders again (three in total) to make that happen and when I did the system started to mark ALL my folders for refresh/update and it took two hours before the close to 20 000 files where processed and back in usable condition again.

Is this a behavior to expect even in the future or is it some way to avoid that? I mean I often use to remove folders and append new ones without that is happening normally.

[Mario]

IMatch upgrades don't alter settings, unless I mean to. And in that case I document it in the release notes.
Upgrading the database system has nothing to do with settings.

1. No change related to orientation. Please provide a minimum of information, like file format, 
where is the orientation wrong? File Window? Viewer? If you use RAW, WIC or photools.com RAW processing?

2. That's a File Window setting (hierarchical mode) I guess, which is stored per File Window. No change with that. I assume this is what you have "configured". It helps to provide more details, like what you actually have configured, which option or settings you have used etc. I can only guess otherwise.

3. "Not displayed at all". IMatch does not remove sub-folders from your database once added. It will by default not add new sub-folders found under folders in the database, but notify you to perform a rescan of the parent folder.

Adding folders to a database does not touch other folders. A folder is only marked for rescan when the last modified on disk timestamp is newer in the database, or when IMatch detects a file newer than the folder during the initial folder scan. May this be the case, you or some other application changing the folder timestamps or adding files without you knowing?

The log file from that session would contain more information, e.g. what you did, what IMatch found in the file system, if and which folders were considered as outdated.

The update is out for almost a week, and no reports from other users, no emails about similar problems. I use the same update on my 3 PCs without any issues.