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I did some testing and it does seem to be fixed now! Thank you!

That's amazing news. I even see it got fixed already. Thank you!

I tried to create some sample files using GIMP, but interestingly, they didn't have this issue at all. Apparently only files I rip from this Pokémon mod have this issue. Here is one such file:

430 - Honchkrow - Original.png

If you follow the steps above, you'll get a file with a shuffled palette ...

UPDATE: After playing around a bit, I noticed that this doesn't happen if you also add a "Clear Metadata" (with everything checked) transformation before the "Convert to Colours" transformation. No idea why, though. But at least I can keep using XnView for this purpose right now

EDIT: No, turns ...

XnView: 2.50.4 - 64-bit portable
OS: Windows 10 - 64-bit

When doing batch processing on PNGs with indexed colours, the palette gets shuffled around. As an input, I have one (or more) PNGs that have 16 indexed colours, and do batch processing to convert to a PNG with 256 colours to fill the rest of ...

Yes, only by Export. But I've noticed a "pattern" now.

This only happens whenever I press Refresh before saving (I have Auto refresh off). If I don't Refresh before saving, everything's fine.

I've looked into my system, but really couldn't find anything wrong...

And now I also get these locks when I export to JPG. This is so strange...

Now that's just strange... I'll check on my end to see what could be wrong.

I use 'Export'. 'Save as' works just fine the way it should.

I don't have any other image editing software on my laptop besides MS Paint, so I don't think that interferes either.
I have K-lite Codec Pack installed, but that shouldn't cause a problem.

Whenever I use XnView to export any image to PNG, a lock appears over the file. This is because, for some reason, XnView exports the PNG file without any rights for normal Users. This is something that only happens for PNG export. It doesn't happen when you Export as JPG or if you Save as PNG. Here ...