XnView Software

Hi, thanks for the reply. I changed settings as seen in the attachment. I had to rebuild thumbnails for this folder. This made the thumbnails look oke (=red) but the for preview, I had to check: use camera white balance. So I would think that XN does something odd.But only here in this folder. Which I ...

... purposes, so I can't just change.
I used to be able to search using [keyword], but it doesn't work any more and I can't find anything in the settings to allow or exclude certain chars. I'm also not using Regular Expressions, so there's no reason [] should be excluded.

Using '[' alone returns no ...

I re-installed 1.9.8 just now. 1.9.8 picked up all display settings from 1.9.5, I don't know why for my earlier issues. 1.9.8 works in Tahoe. No issues. PLEASE IGNORE MY PREVIOUS REPORT.

I re-installed 1.9.8 just now. 1.9.8 picked up all display settings from 1.9.5, I don't know why for my earlier issues. 1.9.8 works in Tahoe. No issues. PLEASE IGNORE MY PREVIOUS REPORT.

1. goto 'Camera RAW' tab in Settings>Formats>Read
2. change View from 'Embedded preview' to Half or Full size
3. play with Full/Half size rendering adjustments

if does not help - share your file

Which tab did I tell you to look at? Exiftool, not EXIF.
Check in settings to ensure your path to exiftool.exe is filled out correctly. Use the filter box in settings to find it. Once you have exiftool working properly, the instructions I gave you are correct. If you are not getting correct results ...

I'll try to help you, xinni.

First, those icons are called "overlay icons." There is a guide to what they mean in the application settings.
Go to Tools->Settings, and use the filter box at the top-left corner of the settings dialog to search for the word overlay.
That will allow you to select ...

... just to get a simple hex code onto the clipboard.
Usually, I just use a quick online tool if I'm in a rush and don't want to mess with the INI settings or the keyboard modifiers. I've been using https://colorpickerimage.org/ lately - it’s pretty lightweight and gets the job done when XnView is ...

... variables/words order, especially when working with lists, where other options exist

Example
'Duplicate files naming' setting has 5 options (Settings>General>File operations) :
<Filename> - Copy (#) default
<Filename>-Copy (#)
<Filename>-(#)
<Filename>-#
Copy (#) of <Filename>

Copy ...

... random pictures from the directory. This problem does not occur if the selection includes two files that are adjacent in the Browser window, but that's not much consolation.
is one of the files already open in Viewer?
if so, check 'Allow multiple Viewer tabs for the same file' in Settings>Interface

... from the directory. This problem does not occur if the selection includes two files that are adjacent in the Browser window, but that's not much consolation.

Could that possibly be a sort order settings issue: in the browser, View >Sort by with multiple display sub order options available... ?

... 5 64-bit and Windows 11 64-bit (no display scaling).

Repro:
1. Configure Windows to make XnViewMP a default image viewer
2. Open XnViewMP, go to Settings, and configure these 3 things. All of them are critical:
General > Startup > Open = " Viewer - Fullscreen "
View > Auto zoom = " Fit image to ...

... notepad le fichier xnview.ini dans c /users/application data/roaming/xnviexmp mais je ne trouve pas
Parametres>Integration>chemins seulement "settings" mais mes compétences bien limitée en informatique ne me permettent pas de comprendre ce que je dois faire pour harmoniser cette couleurs avec ...

odurand75 wrote: Fri Dec 19, 2025 6:47 am OK. Let me know if I can be of any help at all by providing more information.

in settings>Privacy you can authorize it. If you try ?

+1
for adding and option to alter behavior of flattening files functionality (in Settings>Filelist)
eg named something like:
"Resolve folder shortcuts" OR
"Follow folder links" OR
"Follow folder shortcuts when scanning subfolders"