Categories and Thumb display filtering

[jared19]

Hi,

I have tons of images and I want to categorize them. Is there any way to set image categories from outside XnView, by script maybe? Manually setting them through "view->set category" menu is cumbersome. Where does XnView store the category data for each image?

My 2nd question is when displaying thumbnails in the browser, can I set a filter (based on filename, not type) so that only a subset of them are displayed?

TIA

[ckv]

Category data is stored in category.db file. It's an SQLite database, so I'm afraid there's no easy way the set the categories outside from XnView.

If you are techy enough, you probably could figure out how the files are stored in the database and use the command-line sqlite tool to set your own files in the database.