No overlay icon for rejected files?

[BanjoTom]

If I hit the DELETE key for a selected file, it changes its rating to delete, but the red delete/reject overlay no longer appears on the thumbnail.  

Instead, the thumbnail image just dims.  Is that the way this should work?  It was always helpful to me, before, to see the circular red "special overlay icon" as shown in the help file at: https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/fw_files_reject.htm 

[Mario]

Do you mean in the File Window?
I tried this and it seems to work:

Any special conditions I need to check? Which layout do you use? Anything I should try?

[BanjoTom]

Yes, the problem is in the File Window.  I'm using a layout I customized long ago, but if I switch to the layout called "Standard" the delete file icon DOES show up.  Is there a way to fix this issue in my layout (which I customized and named "TA Default 3" ??

[Mario]

Hm. This is independent from the actual layout used. The icon overlays the thumbnail.
Can you export your custom File Window layout, ZIP and attach it so I can have a look and see if I can reproduce it here?

[BanjoTom]

Here is the problematic File Window layout, attached.  Thanks for any suggestions you can make, Mario!

[Mario]

You have managed to effectively hide the reject overlay icon with your layout
IMatch tries to optimize which information must be loaded from the database, to maintain a good performance for the File Window.

For example, it checks if it needs to load metadata. Attributes like file name, dimensions, date & time etc. are cached in memory and don't require IMatch to fetch the metadata for a file to display it in a File Window.

If no metadata is needed, IMatch checks if the rating & label bar is visible, and then only loads the rating and label metadata.

If this is also not the case, it checks if the thumbnail panel is colored using label colors and if yes, loads the label only.

Your layout does not require any metadata (you only use custom HTML and variables), the rating bar is off and no label colors are used.

Based on all this, the File Window decided that the rating information must not be loaded. And this is why the rejected files are dimmed, but don't show a rating overlay.

I have added a special check for this quite peculiar combination to ensure that the rating info is loaded.

As a quick work-around, enable the rating & label bar.

[BanjoTom]

Thanks for your quick analysis and recommendation.  I'll see to that immediately!