XnView Software

Thank you for the quick response. I have to admit I don't know if I used 'base path" or not because I'm not sure what that is. Sorry.

I've decided to rebuild the catalogue and thumbnails (backed them up first) - using the process described here - or as close as I can get with the current version of ...

When I open some categories there are duplicate thumbnails. When I go to the folder, there is only one file listed for each one that's duplicated in the category view, so I know the actual files are okay and figure the thumbnails have been messed up somehow.

What is the best way to fix this?

Thank you Friedrich. It was the filter in the main window toolbar that I'd not set to video. All good now

I've saved some videos to a folder using XnView import function; however, when I go to the folder in XnView, nothing shows up in the browser window. The videos are all there on the drive when I look in Windows File Explorer, but there's nothing to see in XnView. (The files are all mp4.)

I think I ...

What a brilliant resource, @michel038. What an effort you've put in.

I will be spending a lot of time exploring your pages learning how to get the best from XnView and about photo asset management generally.

Merci mille fois - thank you a zillion times over .

Thank you very much, @michel038. I think I've done what you suggested and ticked the boxes in the metadata settings.

I see that the XMP file is updated now and has the keywords. I checked it's doing what I was hoping for by importing a few files to LR. It's working just as I wanted, with LR showing ...

As I understand it, XnViewMP categories are separate and distinct from keywords, with categories stored in a separate database.

I'm used to having a hierarchical keyword structure and would like to know how to achieve this in XnViewMP. That is, to have hierarchical keywords embedded in the photo ...