XnView Software

In order to populate this information in the Catalog Filter, your database must be updated. Go to Settings:Catalog and you will see an "Update Metadata" button in the lower right corner. Clicking this button will only update metadata for the folder that is currently selected in the directory list on ...

Try downloading a fresh copy of the app, preferably the portable (zip) version.

Run it with a clean .ini file and database, and see if the histogram works. If it does, something’s wrong with your current installation or settings.

Thank you for your reply, cday. I have spent several hours trying different settings to achieve my desired result. Your note confirms my lack of success. The forum did have older posts about this problem, but it may have been resolved in NConvert. I am not a programmer so I did not try that solution ...

... page numbers for the entire batch:
AK-L013_01.tif
AK-L013_02.tif
AK-L014_03.tif
AK-L014_04.tif
AK-L014_05.tif
AK-L015_06.tif
AK-L015_07.tif

What settings are needed to restart page numbers with a new filename? Here is a screenshot of my current settings.

Thank you for any help.
2025-10-23_16-02-24 ...

XnViewMP 1.9.5
Windows11 (25H2), display resolution 3840x2160, dpi scale 150%

Settings - Integration
its only possible to enable XnShell during installation process, which is inconvenient

Suggestion
add 'Enable XnShell' checkbox
which will
register
regsvr32 /s "<path_to_app_folder ...

Settings>Color management is enabled?

... and rename it to exiftool.exe

6. Now you can close the file manager window, and run XnViewMP.

7. In XnViewMP, go to the Tools menu, and select Settings.

8. In the settings screen, under Integration there is a item called Paths. Click it, and an option will appear for ExifTool path.

9. Click the ...

artberesta wrote: Sun Oct 05, 2025 3:06 pm Please specify if this works on version 1.9.4.

I didn't quite understand how to make a dark theme or what to copy where.

Works in 1.9.5. Go to TOOLS - SETTINGS - GENERAL - THEME

It sounds like you don't have things configured properly.

The short answer is: If you go into settings in XnViewMP, both the Thumbnail and View pages have options to use gamma correction.
But those settings shouldn't be necessary if you have your system set up properly.

If you're on Windows (you ...

you can
1. set Custom thumbnail size in Settings>Thumbnail>Appearance
2. select Custom in Browser>View>Thumbnail size


Thanks for your reply!
Yes, I’m aware of that feature — you can specify custom thumbnail pixel size in the settings or select “Custom” from the Browser view menu.

However, my ...

... It would be great if I could somehow make it easier to jump back and forth between two sort "schema" without having to change all three of those settings manually. So far I have been poking around but not getting anywhere significant yet. I am looking at the following general ideas:

scripting ...

you can
1. set Custom thumbnail size in Settings>Thumbnail>Appearance
2. select Custom in Browser>View>Thumbnail size

Bonjour Pierre,

Better, but not completely resolved.

I first re-updated metadata at Tools > Settings >Catalog.

Then, I searched orientation with "Current folder" or "Current folder (Recursive)." This works much better now, with both "Landscape" and "Portrait" now returning results.

The portrait ...

... support holding the arrow key down and instead it is seeing the key repeat event.

If you alter the Keyboard "repeat delay" value in system settings, the stuttered delay in XnView changes accordingly.

To fix this, XnView should be looking for "Key press" and "Key release" events. A side effect ...

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' Default ' option in Preset combobox
in Settings > Info, Settings > Tooltip
Also, maybe it's better to rename it to <Default>, like other 'special' options eg in Resize dialogs


LensID (translation exists, but not in use)
in Settings > Info > Insert > EXIF - Camera


Translators (Tab name ...