XnView Software

Ahha! That did it nicely thanks user0.

I failed to take a step to the right:- those variables aren't just there for information. They're active controls.

I was able to prefix my filenames - from Browser view, Tools, Batch rename - with Y hyphen m hyphen d
yielding {Creation Date[Y-m-d]}

plus ...

Yes, thanks user0, that's where I got the syntax from, and how I inferred what else might work.

The trouble, for me*, is that I'm after a date prefix on a filename in yyyy-mm-dd style, not a date & time one.

Anything further?

* and possibly many others after this becomes a discovery, if ...

However, neither {Date Taken:[Y-m-d]} nor {Creation Date:[Y-m-d]} work.
They're taken as literals.

Like pb_raza, I'd like to use {Y-m-d} to pre-pend the write date, for instance, for images that don't have EXIF or IPC etc data.

I'm wondering what the purpose of the date format variables is.
Any ...

There continues to be a vast paucity of assistance for batch operations using NConvert, even after 19 years of patience.

The current/latest text file -help provides:

-hls h l s : Adjust Hue Lightness Saturation

If anyone can work out from that line how that command can be used, it would be a ...

No. Just do that with your mouse - can be left or right click, depending upon the way you've configured Selection.
Practise until you're comfortable with it.

Your question didn't get the attention it deserved, Pierre.
I'd say, most certainly Yes - that XnConvert should be a companion to NConvert and be capable of performing all the functions of the GUI.
It's very useful to be able to pass parameters to programs, of course, so if both your converters were ...

I notice that in the update alert (also 'Help', 'Check for update...') the notice refers to vn. 1.5.2 twice rather than 1.5.3 (2023-08-11) as the latest.
A small thing.
17th Aug 2023.

PS I, for one, would find it helpful if the downloads carried their version numbers in their filenames, like ...

How is 'Sharpen' intended to work?
I can see it in the View View settings, but what happens? Is an image just sharpened in the current on-screen impression, or does 'Sharpen' correct the current file and save it that way when written to disk?
Sharpen to save, or sharpen to view? Both?

Is it ...

Right-click a blank area of the toolbar, choose Customise toolbar...
In the bottom-right corner there's the tick-box 'Large icons'.
HTH

Pierre!!

"ok, and what do you have in settings>Save session on program exit?"

In 'Tools, Settings, General: Save session on program exit?' I had 'Always'. :shock:

'Hiding in plain sight' is the expression.
Did YOU forget that one, Pierre? I certainly didn't notice it, there being so many ...

Not quite, Pierre.

I open XnView MP (to the browser (when all previous tabs have been closed explicitly)), open a picture in a tab, open another picture in another tab, go to Settings and click on >Reset all prompts/OK, then top-right X or File, Quit or Ctrl Q and receive one prompt to Quit ...

where settings are saved?


Where are settings saved?

As far as I can tell - using 'Everything' as an aid - in:
C:\Users\PhredE\AppData\Roaming\XnViewMP\xnview.ini
...last updated at this time on 20/09/2021. Seems correct.
Permissions for me the user are quite open.

NOTE: It's the one and only ...

Oh yes, a few tabs open, including one for the browser.

For the time being, during this analysis, I'm not ticking the 'Remember my answer...' box when I choose 'OK' to quit.

XnVMP started from the executable - into the browser.

Tonight the program isn't saving open tabs, the opposite to what it ...

you have not 'Save this session' when exiting?

Correct, Pierre - no 'Save this session?' prompt upon exiting. Only the 'Do you want to exit?" prompt (along with 'save my response').

This is on two machines, so far, version 0.98.4 - 64bit.
[And just confirmed with 0.99.0]
[It would be handy if ...

Contrariwise, I have no need to retain my last sessions. Indeed, I'd like the choice to NOT save the last collection I was last looking at.

The Reset all confirmations doesn't ask me the 'Save this session' question, only the 'Do you want to exit' one using the window top-right X. :shock:

It's ...