Color tag behaviour and permanency
Posted: 2020 May 31, 04:17
I have looked through the forums entries and reviewed all the instructions related to colour tags, but have not found a definitive answer to my problem.
The documentation states that colour tags are permanent, which implies to me that I can rename, move or otherwise manipulate a file and the tag should remain. I find that this does not happen in two circumstances: a) the tags do not take immediately, that is if I do any manipulation of the file, such as correct the name, the colour tag is lost though the tag remains if I close and re-open the pane or open another directory in the pane, or after some indeterminate length of time; b) moving a file to another directory on the same partition or a different one, the tag is lost permanently. If I do nothing with a file other than opening, closing, etc. the tags stay in place.
I have noted some references to similar problems in other forum posts, but they are usually asides and not addressed.
Other customisation, such as colour coding which I use to distinguish different types of links, work perfectly.
I assume that either I have overlooked a setting for implementing the tags (though I seem to have done it properly) or there is some aspect of my system set-up that is causing this behaviour. Does anyone have any suggestions?
xplorer2 Pro 4.4.0.1 x64
Windows 10 Pro ver. 1903
many shell extensions that I don't want to mess with now that things are the way I want
Thanks for any help.
The documentation states that colour tags are permanent, which implies to me that I can rename, move or otherwise manipulate a file and the tag should remain. I find that this does not happen in two circumstances: a) the tags do not take immediately, that is if I do any manipulation of the file, such as correct the name, the colour tag is lost though the tag remains if I close and re-open the pane or open another directory in the pane, or after some indeterminate length of time; b) moving a file to another directory on the same partition or a different one, the tag is lost permanently. If I do nothing with a file other than opening, closing, etc. the tags stay in place.
I have noted some references to similar problems in other forum posts, but they are usually asides and not addressed.
Other customisation, such as colour coding which I use to distinguish different types of links, work perfectly.
I assume that either I have overlooked a setting for implementing the tags (though I seem to have done it properly) or there is some aspect of my system set-up that is causing this behaviour. Does anyone have any suggestions?
xplorer2 Pro 4.4.0.1 x64
Windows 10 Pro ver. 1903
many shell extensions that I don't want to mess with now that things are the way I want
Thanks for any help.