XnView Software

Thanks a bunch for you help! I'm really glad you've taken your time to try and help me.

But I have to conclude that I can't use XnView for my workflow. I need to be able to trust it to consistently write data to my files without going through a whole bunch of slow work arounds. If I had a small ...

Is there any way to embed categories set on an image as a keyword directly into the XMP info in the image?

I've got my images sorted in categories in XnView. but now need to export a bunch of them to another platform. And it seems that using keywords in XMP works the best. So now I'd like to mass ...

Ok. I can't make it do anything. The only way I can get a result is by searching the specific folder I know the file to be in, and then search for the file name. I can't just stand at the top of the repository and then ask it to search down through the subfolders based on only a selection of ...

michel038 wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2024 2:59 pm It's a "feature" I've been describing for a long time. When you categorize files, you have to deselect them before any other operation. It's a constraint...

Ok, that explains. Seems like odd to me. But ok, I guess it's just a quirk of the app?

I have no idea how to search in XnView... Like literally nothing shows up when I do a search.

I've categorized a bunch of files and now wish to search for files with a specific category. But no matter what I do, nothing shows up. I can click the category in the catalog filter and get to what I want ...

Yep. Within XnView that is.

If I categorize them, unselect them, then re-select them I can move them, and it's ok. The issue seems to be doing both actions in one flow. So if I categegorize them and them move them, the files will be moved, but the categories won't be assigned and all these blank non-existing files show up.

If ...

It varies. Some are png some are webp and some are jpeg

EDIT: There might be a time issue... If I leave the files for a few moments in the "Unsorted"-folder for a little while after assigning categories, the problem doesn't seem to occur...

Mac OS X
XnView 1.8.0

I have a workflow that goes like this:

Place new images in folder "Unsorted" - > Categorize them -> move them into a folder structure depending on their type.

This results in some strange behavior from XnView. The files are moved, but the categories won't stick to the files ...