XnView Software

In Batch Convert, the naming template offers, under the right triangle, some individual symbols for formatting dates.

* Can I suggest a few popular combinations are provided as well as the individual letters, I'm thinking particularly of Y-m-d-H-M-S and Y_m_d_H_M_S as that would save on manual entry ...

Ah I see what's happened: Preserve Metadata has become unticked - I must have done that for a quick task!

That does explain it (I think elsewhere I raised the idea that Create Thumbnail should be adhered to when Preserve Metadata is unticked)

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if i use output jpg with same settings, embedded thumbnail is generated. Which input file do you use?

When I do a batch convert JPG to JPG in 1.9.8, EXIF thumbnails appear not to be generated, or perhaps are unreadible. They were properly done in prior versions. However, EXIF thumbs are created when manually saving an image.
I've attached my settings, it happens whether XYB is ticked or not, and a ...

... unify groups
Viewer - effects - move effects into dialog
Viewer - effects - add 'Last used Filter' functionality
App UI - menu structure - Image - merge Map and Adjust groups
- done -
Batch convert - actions - improve grouping (1.8.0)
Batch convert - preview - improve file controls (1.8.0)

To reproduce, copy say 10 image files F of size to a temporary folder T. Then batch convert F to T selecting skip and you'll find they are processed slowly and the end log reports them being loaded but the save action skipped.

The problem is that the output filename is only known after reading ...

'Automatic crop' is in Batch convert, and in edit mode

This continues to be a problem for me. If you're converting 10000 images and have to stop it, then to resume it you'll want to do the same images again but skip the existing target ones. However to skip them xnview (1.9.8 tested) loads-converts them first and only then on save finds out they exist and ...

... press Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+V to copy the image; the thumbnail doesn't display.

2) Press F5 to update and it should display correctly.

3) Select the copied PNG image and press Ctrl+U to convert it to JPG; the thumbnail still doesn't display.

4) Press F5 again to update and it should display correctly.

... like MP4 so the files are easy to share and not too big.

If you ever run into cant play video problems after recording with some tools, it usually comes down to the format or codec issues. Last time this happened, I had to convert my videos with a converter so anyone could watch them without issues.

Blender 5.0 (open source) allows HDR visualization of HLG and PQ encoded content.
Google's libultraHDR allows to convert Gain Map images to PQ or HLG.

From my understanding, these are the required software bases.

An probably unrealistic but potentially neat alternative would be to build the image ...

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davidwu10 wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 5:20 pm program IS showing basic images (JPGs, PNGs, etc), but NOT CDRs, which it was in the other version.

check 'Show all graphic formats' in Settings>General

also
Unable to convert .cpt files
Handling limited Corel format support

walter2970 wrote: Wed Dec 03, 2025 9:14 am I need to upload several folders with images and save each converted image in the original folder. Can I do this?
By default I can only select a unique folder for all images in all folders.

Use Batch Convert, and select "Source Folder" as the folder option.

with 'Batch convert'?