XnView Software

Good catch! FWIW users on the XnView forums got help from the official dev asking for a sample file so they can see exactly why the thumbnails/preview aren’t showing, and one suggestion was to check Settings → General → show all graphic formats first.

... and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.”

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Somethings's not right. Suggest you delete your settings and start with a fresh copy of the app, or post screenshots of your settings.

What file types are we talking about? Jpeg or something else?

If you have hundreds or thousands of images in a single folder, it will take a few seconds to load them ...

I changed my settings to the ones you specified and waited for the program to refresh all the thumbnails. Sadly, it didn't fix the problem, when I opened a folder inside the directory then went back out, all the thumbnails were blank again. But they are refreshing faster, so that's a plus.

... do thumbnail caching, which saves and re-uses previously generated thumbnails.

It sounds like you have thumbnail caching turned off. Check your settings in Setting:Catalog.

You need to ensure Enable Thumbnail Caching is checked, that that "maximum size for cached thumbnails" is adequate if you ...

... s annoying that if I wait for all the thumbnails to refresh, then go into one of the folders and back out, they all have to refresh again.

I've looked at all the settings but I can't find where to disable this auto refreshing, if there is a way.

If anyone knows the answer, I'd be eternally grateful!

... XMP files over what is embedded in DNG itself when opening in Adobe Camera Raw.

Basically if i create sidecar .XMP and place next to DNG with settings settings (screenshot in first post) Adobe Camera Raw will prioritize whatever settings are inside sidecar .XMP over what's in DNG and upon saving ...

I don't see any problems with understanding the auto-zoom options, naming is perfect.
Besides, if you're not sure, testing them will take less than a minute.



My personnal setup (and I believe this should be the default) would be:
When image is smaller than the window: Display image in original ...

... when I need it. I've been able to link to the raw editor in XnView MP so that should work well.

BTW I back up files nightly, so I might try restoring the files you mentioned. I'll also put a copy of them in a separate place, as you've suggested. After that I'll see what settings work best for me.

... You turned that on when messing with the custom filter, which you still have active. (see comment below).

To turn off the green arrow, go to Settings:File List:Custom Filter and deselect "Parent Folder". Or turn off the custom filter.


The filter menu opened, with "All" selected, so that seems ...

... menu opened, with "All" selected, so that seems okay too.
https://bogongbreeze.com/images4upload/filtermenu.png

I've just looked at the settings/View/Filter, which was set to "Custom" not "like browser". Everything checkable under Settings/File List/ Custom Filter is checked. I haven't ...

... There's also a toolbar button for filter controls. If you set a custom filter, you must have found the setting in Setting:View:Filter and Settings:File List:Custom Filter, so you can go back there and adjust them to your taste.

Better start taking notes on how you change the settings, since ...

... You say "it is not in the scan" but evidently Finereader thinks it is; probably Finereader is showing you an image with different contrast settings, or perhaps a 16-bit image that when it converts it to 8-bit for jpeg it's compressing the tones and this pale grey area becomes visible. Assuming ...

It's a Mac Mini M4 so I assume that's Intel.

I downloaded the latest 1.106.0 DMG straight from the site and that seems to be saving the options on a restart.

I've tried the App Store version, and no problem. MacOS intel or ARM?