XnView Software

It is fixed! Thank you.

If I start a slideshow using the slideshow icon at the top of the interface, it opens up a settings screen, and uses those settings when I start the slideshow.

When I then later right click on a folder to "start slideshow," the slideshow starts instead on default settings, and does not present me ...

It happens for many, but not all, the files I assign categories to.

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(Hoping that url works)

Yes, that's correct.

This is hard to explain. But say I have a file titled "sunrise.jpg," and I assign it a category "bright".

Now I use the category tab to look only at pictures categorized as "bright." What I end up seeing is a placeholder "blank" jpg icon titled "sunrise.jpg." When I select that placeholder blank ...

I figured it out!

What I thought was the categories pane is not the categories pane. To activate the categories pane, I had to right click on the toolbar and click on "categories."

From there, was able to follow the instructions I'd found elsewhere--RMB on a category, "edit" or "settings" I ...

I have found some threads, not very old (from 2018), explaining how to assign a shortcut to a category, but I'm having trouble following the instructions. They refer to an RMB menu when you select a category, but the only RMB menu I can find is one that lets me rename or delete or create a new ...