XnView Software

Philbeaux wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 5:46 pm Alright, the next time it crashes I will try to send you what it's crashing on.

Where do I send it?

contact at xnview dot com

Philbeaux wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 3:46 pm Seems the same, but it does happen with PDFs - maybe it's because I open PDFs quite frequently with MP.

Ok, an old one, the crash occurs in ghostscript so you have Win 11 25H2? XnView MP 1.9.5? and ghostscript 10.04
could you send us a pdf that crash?

Philbeaux wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 3:15 pm

xnview wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 2:52 pm which version of ghostscript do you have?

Do you have enter your username or mail in the dialog?

Looks like 10.04.0

Seems ok, and same crash if you select only jpeg or png?

Yes - pretty sure I included my email.

Sorry but i don't find any crash dump with your email

Clicking on just about anything. JPG, PNG, PDF. Just this morning I was CTRL-Clicking multiple images to delete when it crashed.
which version of ghostscript do you have?

And yes, I have sent in the crash dialog - when it has appeared. It doesn't always appear. Lately it's just doing the "Not ...

+1 would love this, too. My usecase would be to export processing options to a file and then call xnconvert from CLI with file names and the processing config file as arguments. That way I could prepare my processing in GUI and apply it from CLI.


Please contact us if you want to test XnConvert ...

Ok, I've used XNView Classic for years and always loved it so I finally decided to give MP a try.
I got to say I do like the extra features but, it seems like it's always crashing.

how do you have crashes? You click thumbnail of jpeg files?
XnView MP 1.9.5?
Do you have sent the crash dump via ...

Thanks to your detailed description I can reproduce the problem.

sorry but currently no way

dave80 wrote: Sun Nov 23, 2025 11:27 pm Where is the information for the contents of Albums stored? Can it be backed up?

saved in xnview.db

- Does it create a copy while importing into a new folder/catalog structure or moves the files from the source?

You have a 'move files' setting


- If using a Subfolder with [Y/m] mask for Import and sort, what date it uses? Is it original EXIF date of a photo creation or the last modification ...

how do you add a category? could you send us a source file?

venik wrote: Sun Nov 23, 2025 1:05 am quick update also the last attempt to renew the catalog failed.
Please find attached the dump file zipped.

it seems that you have a crash with movie file

venik wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:54 pm And after viewing it, I can then find it also when filtering from the root folder.
Yes I use base path.

There is a problem with 'update metadata' when using 'base path'

i've replied

venik wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2025 10:08 pm 1. Open a root folder containing many subfolders (e.g., structured by year/month YYYY_MM).
(In my case, a very large collection with TBs of images and videos.)

and if you open the folder containing this file?

do you use 'base path' in Settings>Catalog?