What does this Windows utility do to the CR2 files when you set the rating? Does it modify the file? If you transfer the file to a different system, do the ratings show up?
-Kirk
It's not a separate utillity, just right-click file and go to file property details.
Anyway, the rating I set using that on the CR2 file sticks, I can move the file to a different directory, boot into Windows 7 instead of Vista, etc.
It just writes to the file properties, just like PhotoMechanic does for JPG files but seems to fail to, at least in a way that agrees with Windows Vista or 7, to CR2 files.
Something about how PM writes to the CR2 files when it tries to write the ratings and/or whatever else it writes to the header, makes Windows properties be unable to alter the properties anymore.
Anyway, however PM is writing to JPGs seems to be fine but however it writes to CR2s seems to be off (or at least done in some way that windows messes up with).
unless there is some setting that i have failed to set to get it to write out the ratings, etc. to RAWs (although that still doesn't explain why windows can no longer access the header infomation completely)