XnView Software

Hmm, it might be fixed, but not optimally.

64-bit version, Windows 7.

Increment Exif:date taken (or any time) and the program spins its wheels for a while, becomes unresponsive, and in the meantime the task manager shows that the program has read and written approximately 700MB. This is roughly ...

I bit more information on the "progress" bar. I think I have seen why the results are different for different people.

The progress update only seems to happen when the scan goes to the next selected folder.
If I select 5 folders then I will see 5 steps. They are very uneven, because in that example ...

Bonus Not only is the memory leak fixed, but the speed of search is also much faster - 20 seconds to do what took 8 minutes previously. The IPTC is still faster than XMP - 8 seconds.

confirmed fixed

The "1.#J" is now replaced with zero, which matches the exif:shutterspeed value.

It does mean these sort in the wrong order (faster than the fastest shutter speed), but this will do until proper exposure times are used.

the problem is fixed, which it already was in the previous beta

fixed now.

The problem of saying it has changed when it has not for
edit the caption and writing a single file - is fixed
edit a caption and save to all files and then try to shift to a different file then it erroneously says "IPTC data has changed". NOT fixed
switch to any image and "save to all files" in ...

dramatic improvement in speed as well as reduction of number of bytes written.

As an example, I could no longer measure my test for 1000 files.

So I scanned 11000 files - in 9 seconds, and a total of about 9MB written.

I tried to reproduce this but when I view a file and its properties in Explorer after applying a category to it said category does not show in its metadata. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong.
There are settings in Browser->Metadata->IPTC&XMP tab that allow you to synchronise keywords in the ...

the screenshot visible in the first post.
Windows 7, x64. ctrl-A also works provided I have first clicked in the keywords area to give it focus

Unfortunately IPTC window works only for few formats.

My request from here http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=35114 has much more impact ...

m.Th. wrote:

You can select all undesired keywords and press the X key.

Where??
I doesn't work for me...

the screenshot visible in the first post.
Windows 7, x64. ctrl-A also works provided I have first clicked in the keywords area to give it focus

XnView MP v: 0.84 and 0.85 beta1 (10-Mar-2017) (both 64-bit)
OS : Windows 7 Pro, x64

Description:
Cannot select multiple discrete files in Edit IPTC keywords window

To Reproduce:

find an image file with 3 or more separate keywords. (or create one)
Edit->IPTC and choose keywords tab ...

When importing images, sometimes I encounter images with a lot of spam tags. I haven't found a way to just delete all tags.



You can select all undesired keywords and press the X key.
Actually, there seems to be a UI bug here - :bug: new bug created :
I can select a range using shift-click, but ...

When importing images, sometimes I encounter images with a lot of spam tags. I haven't found a way to just delete all tags.

If there enough images and enough keywords then I find it useful to use the command line exiftool program.
It is very powerful, although it comes at a price of somewhat ...