Ratings not retained

[prairie11]

I am running Photomechanic 5.0 on a Mac (OSX 10.7.5).

I am inserting my SD card into the computer and viewing the files on the card using Photo Mechanic. I then delete files and assign ratings to those that I keep on the card.  When I put the card in again later, the ratings are gone. Should the ratings be staying with the files, and if so, why are they not doing so?  Thank you.

[Sven]

Hi!
The default is NOT to modify images on the card. You need to enable this by going to the following steps:
Preferences => Files.
Set a tick in " Allow modification of files on Camera Disk (not recommended! )"
Close the dialog with "OK"

HTH
Sven

[prairie11]

Thank you, Kirk - that makes sense.

I sometimes rate after ingesting, and sometimes rate without ingesting; I didn't realize there was a difference. Thanks for clearing this up.