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Welcome to the XnView forums and thank you for your suggestion, Jany. Bulk deletion is a delicate thing - if something goes wrong and wrong files are deleted there is big harm to the user. So if implemented this feature must have a clear user interface to avoid wrong usage and even have some with ...

Damit wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 7:11 pmMan, I thought tagging music was difficult, visual media is proving to be on another level!

xnview wrote: Sat Aug 06, 2022 9:14 am it's works in image info and Batch rename

O.k., good to know. Could this notation also be added to thumbnail labels? It's non-intuitive and looks and feels buggy if things work in one context but don't in another context.

The embedded thumbnail in the jpeg is darker. Uncheck 'Settings>Thumbnail>Use embedded', and select the file, 'View>Rebuild thumbnails'
"Settings > Thumbnails > Use embedded" should not be unchecked: FAIK, disabling usage of embedded thumbnails will slow down browsing and thumbnail generation in ...

Thank you for providing a screenshot, David. When setting selection ratio (e.g. 16:9), XnView will set the selection depending on the orientation of the image - either portrait (16:9) or landscape (9:16). This adaption was built into XnView Classic (and now in XnView MP) is on purpose to support the ...

Thank you for your replies, Pierre and Michael. Do the placeholders really work in image info? If yes, could this notation for placeholders also be made available for thumbnail labels and renaming? (I can't see a reason why placeholders work in a specific scenario, only.)

you can use {EXIF:x10B} (x10B is the tag number of what you want)


You can set an EXIF field by using his tag value, eg. {EXIF:x110}

In the Wiki for XnView MP and in an old post the notation {EXIF:x10B} is used for placeholders for EXIF data. For me this notation for place holders doesn't ...

... Is there a map of field titles for IPTC and EXIF used in XnView MP? ...
FAIk, there is no such map. In Wiki for XnView MP you'll find a list of the date variables and some additional information, only. But as written above when editing a custom thumbnail label there is a button [>>] at the ...

Thank you for your suggestion, Levan. Do I understand right: If a folder contains both images and subfolders then you want to see a plain folder symbol without any mini thumbnails in the folder symbol. Only if a folder doesn't contain subfolders then folder with mini thumbnails of contained images ...

Maybe {EXIF:Modified Date [m/d/Y H:M:S]} ?
Hmm, is there a modified date in EXIF at all? I know of "Date Taken" but not of "Date modified" in EXIF. If you want the modified date of the file you can insert placeholder {Modified Date [m/d/Y H:M:S]}

PS: When editing custom thumbnail labels there is ...

If possible, another question. Inside the archive, only image formats have icons, other files do not. Can I fix it? Hmm, at the moment no thumbnail is displayed at all which looks like a bug to me. For non-image files a placeholder thumbnail is supposed to be displayed (when unpacking the contents ...

Thank you for your sample RAR archive, Levin. Good that you found the reason for your problem yourself: RAR archives with non-ascii chars in filename can be browsed but XnView MP will display no contents (thumbnails). I could reproduce your problem - after renaming the RAR archive from Ї "ї.rar" to ...

Thank you, de89a2117eb570c46318. I've just added this missing setting to the initial post.

Thank you for your problem report, arxiv. Your screen capture clearly shows the problem and I could reproduce it easily. (I've just tried in XnView Classic and there it works fine.)

yes for compatibility
If compatibility restricts users and usage that's no good. Perhaps an additional setting forceUtf8ForDescription=true would be a good thing.

And XnView MP's default for setting "useUtf8ForDescription" should be "true" so that new users really benefit from UTF-8 and are not ...