XnView Software

cday wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 3:34 pm With no 'Actions' selected, or in what respect? You could possibly post that as a bug.

no, that's not a bug, it works as expected
it is a 'wish' for a new feature

'Batch convert' has this feature but it's not always OK because it forcefully converts images

1. select output format that will be larger than your original files (eg BMP)
2. check 'Keep original when encoded result is larger'

thanks, but that's a dirty trick :D
i guess it will work great ...

try 'Import and sort' in Browser>File

here's the example:
i have a huge library of scanned photos (with assigned categories) stored on different disks/folders/subfolders
now i want to copy all photos with 'School' category to a different location
i filter the files, select them all
but when i ...

It would be great if 'Copy to...' and 'Move to...' dialogs have a toggle 'Keep folder structure'.
Or add an option 'Copy only (do not convert)' to 'Batch convert' dialog.

xnview wrote: Tue Nov 04, 2025 1:53 pm i have no way to check that a jpeg file was compressed in JPEG-li

thank you for the answer
i've noticed that ExifTools shows a different value for JPEG-li files
or it is not a reliable marker?

potentially dangerous behavior of 'Estimated quality'
for example:
i have a PNG file and i want to save it as JPEG
i select 'Save as' and in 'Options' I check 'Use JPEG-li' and set 'Quality' to 90
now I have a 185KB file, and 'Info' pane shows that 'Estimated quality' is only 57 (which is baffling ...

Face tag -> Search face feature does not work without concrt140.dll file.
XnViewMP distribution package contains all necessary libraries (.dll files) but this one is missing.
Now i manually copy this file to XnViveMP's folder but it would be great if this file is a part of the distribution package ...

xnview wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:07 am This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.8.6. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

bug is fixed
thank you

user0 wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 3:11 pm try to add this key to xnview.ini:

Code: Select all

[%General]
localizedSortCategory=true

has no influence

xnview wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 8:15 am This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.8.4. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

Bug is partially fixed
right after the creation the order is wrong but after the program restart the order is correct Ukrainian alphabet for reference

here it is (in wrong order) i've found this https://vyspiansky.github.io/2017/03/10 ... -in-mysql/
it's mysql not sqlite, but just to show that this problem is quite common

Alphabetical sorting function that is used for categories is wrong for Ukrainian alphabet
here's the screenshots
1. these are newly created categories and they are sorted incorrectly
Clipboard 2.png

2. these are the same categories after XnViewMP restart, the sorting is different from the first ...

xnview wrote:

vovka wrote:

xnview wrote:You have not the standard dialog with animation like windows explorer??

No, I see nothing, Xnview just stops responding until operation is finished.

How do you make the copy/move? Drag&drop?

I use Copy to folder... (Alt+C) and Move to folder... (Alt+M)

xnview wrote:You have not the standard dialog with animation like windows explorer??

No, I see nothing, Xnview just stops responding until operation is finished.

Hi, Pierre.
It would be nice to see a progress bar during Copy/Move operations in browser.
Sometimes it takes much time to copy a hundred or more files and XnView shows no activity at that time. One cannot tell whether it's working or hanging.