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Although this situation creates an illusion that not only creates confusion, ambiguity and is misleading, there is also, of greater importance, the risk that we could delete the media files!

I therefore think it should be resolved with high priority!

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This Suggestion comes in the context of a discussion held in a post: XnView MP and shell links https://forum.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=48948&sid=2806227c0a808f90db05b60af2d0def8

When we use XnVMP we do so essentially to organize our media files (MFl).
However, in parallel ...

user0

I appreciate your feedback and our discussion!
I'm glad we came to the same conclusion!

Thanks

XnVMP 1.8.8

user0

The simulation you present is biased concerning the problem I pose, for the following reasons:

—Starting from a root folder, which contains a tree of subfolders with the images/photos—
1) I don't have links to files, and your simulation does !
2) I have, at most, one or ...

NOTE: This example, shown in the image, was intentionally created to demonstrate the problem I mentioned in my first post!

Following shortcuts is standard file manager behavior, and it's rather odd to expect otherwise
Yes, it is normal behavior in file management!... but it isn't, necessarily, a standard behavior in media file management programs!
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Also .lnk's thumbnails are clearly marked with shortcut ...

Hi

I tried searching the forum, but I didn't find any posts that answered my question ( I apologize if there's already an answer! ) which, at least apparently, is simple: how do I prevent XnVMP from following shell links?

(because of this property of XnVMP, I almost deleted images thinking they ...