XnView Software

XavierR wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2019 3:59 pm [...] path uses 248 characters.

This seems to be an issue with the limit of 260 characters for paths in Windows.
It can be solved via the registry: just add/modify DWORD-value LongPathsEnabled (under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem) setting it to 1.

Pierre, thanks for looking into this.
Can the app detect broken alpha-channel and remove/ignore it automagically when rendering?

There is an option like 'For 'Save as', use original format' (in General => File operations) which should be enabled to make this feature active.
becka, it may be disabled in your case.

I have BMP-file generated as a screenshot by Macrium Reflect 7 Recovery Tool (it is attached for your reference as 7-Zip archive).
It is rendered incorrectly by XnViewMP 0.98.4 (all texts are missing, etc.), though other programs (even mspaint) render it correctly.
It also looks incorrectly when ...

XnView: MP 0.98.2 - 32 bit
OS: Windows 10 - 64bit

Despite enabled option "Keep original date/time" for "Embedded Metadata change", the operation to rotate EXIF thumbnail resets the modification timestamp (to the current date/time).

Effect: Modification timestamp is reset, and the user has to make ...

Yes, I understand this.
For my use cases such behavior is hardly usable.
I don't see a reason why I would want to save edited (cropped/resized/etc.) JPEG-photo as PNG, or edited PNG-screenshot as JPEG: in most cases I save in the same (original) format.
My suggestion is about a configurable option ...

XnViewMP can remember the file type (image format), which was used last used when saving an image (nice feature in any case).
However if the user works with different image formats (like .jpg and .png), this feature makes you do extra clicks.

Consider the scenarion:
1. Open .PNG image.
2. Modify it ...