Extract Image from Xnview.db

pleomax · Post by **pleomax** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:16 am

I have been using Xnview for a year and i must say it is one of the coolest and resourceful piece of software.

Recently i lost a CD full of images which are valuable to me.

Now i want to get those images back but i don't have a backup. Which means the images in the cache is the only one i have. I am willing to recollect those images but i don't know how to extract it from the xnview.db file.

After searching the forum i found that the images may be saved using a 3rd party program.

Can you kindly mention the name of the program which can extract the xnview.db file. The size of my xnview.db file is 450mb.

I am not a programmer that is why i don't know how to extract it. It will be helpful for me if i can carry those images in a flash drive and overwrite the real images on it and in this way i will be able to get them back very fast because the file name is same in the cache.

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:54 am

That's really bad, pleomax, that you have lost all those images.

I'm afraid the cache of XnView (xnview.db) will not help much because it caches thumbnails, only.

If you are interested in the thumbnails, please contact Pierre.

Related topic:
- Extracting thumbnail from XnView.db

pleomax · Post by **pleomax** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:54 am

Thanks a lot helmut for the fast reply.

I know that it only stores the thumbnails. I need the thumbnails to know which images were included in the CD.

Post by **xnview** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:03 am

You can enter 'cache:' in the path field (without quotation marks).