XnView Software

GracyScott wrote: Fri Dec 12, 2025 11:44 am Good catch! FWIW users on the XnView forums got help from the official dev asking for a sample file …

Umm, Gracy, the person you’re replying to, xnview (Pierre) IS the “official dev”. See how it says “Author of XnView” by his picture?

From the Xnview website:
XnView is provided as FREEWARE (NO Adware, NO Spyware) for private or educational use (including non-profit organizations).

So yes, you can have it on both your computers, as long as it’s for your personal private use.

You do not need to go online to activate. No ...

Haha, ok you’ve convinced yourself, so good luck with it.

Somethings's not right. Suggest you delete your settings and start with a fresh copy of the app, or post screenshots of your settings.

What file types are we talking about? Jpeg or something else?

If you have hundreds or thousands of images in a single folder, it will take a few seconds to load ...

That may seem specific but if I were for example an artist or photographer of other things I might want to do similar things for artwork, for example clicking dogs and cats.

No, an artist or photographer would be using tags or keywords, not trying to filter down through 30000 folders. For that ...

FYI, you can get this effect using Smart Albums by utilizing the Pathname or Folder Name conditions, albeit without the ability to add individual arbitrary images with drag and drop.

You can get the same result with a Search or Smart Albums.

In the Search dialog, leave the main Filename and Folder fields empty, and add multiple conditions using Pathname or Folder, global match Any.

For example, if you do this with "Pathname Contains V:/Photos" then you will get all files in ...

The first issue is that it saves the session on exit, rather than in real-time (like browsers do). This is problematic because in the event of a crash, either of XnView or the OS, the session will not be saved.


If you are frequently losing work due to crashes because the session is not saved in ...

after trying most of the free and available media players I didnt find any capable of playing files quickly without lagging


Really? Have you tried VLC?

XnViewMP has a very rudimentary video player. If VLC is "lagging" whatever that means and not performing well on your system, I would strongly ...

There's no "disable auto refreshing" setting. But XnViewMP can do thumbnail caching, which saves and re-uses previously generated thumbnails.

It sounds like you have thumbnail caching turned off. Check your settings in Setting:Catalog.

You need to ensure Enable Thumbnail Caching is checked, that ...

Thank you @jkm. I thought I'd turned off filters by setting "all" down the bottom - appreciate the confirmation. The green arrow is in the middle pane. Perhaps it was always there, but it seems to be new to me.
https://bogongbreeze.com/images4upload/greenarrow.png

Yeah, that's the "up folder ...

I set a filter for files but now I don't want it. Would someone please tell me how to turn off filters?

By reversing what you did to set the filter in the first place. Please refer to the View->Filter By menu. It has many options, one of which is All, which shows everything unfiltered. There's ...

I scanned a document in Finereader, and saved it as a jpg. When I open it in XnView MP, it has the gray field shown in the attachment in it.

Would anyone know where it might come from. It is not in the scan.


Have you tried opening the jpeg in some OTHER image viewing application (not ...

What’s wrong with using the built in “Open in file manager” function on the right click menu, that does exactly that?

KLE,

I suggest you add the Filter-by function to your toolbar. That addresses your concerns, and is the correct and intended way to use the software.

The catalog filter searches the database and returns all results to the browser. It is the job of the browser to filter or sort the results. This is ...