XnView MP cannot start up after image deleted/corrupted

[DeusExMamiya]

Hi,

I'm using the latest Mac version of XnviewMP (I reinstalled it from the website right now just to be sure, and it made no difference).

What seems to be a new feature of XnviewMP is actually a curse : I am referring to the way in which it reloads whatever images were open at the time it was last quit.

This "feature" has completely disabled my XnViewMP installation , because it is trying to reopen a deleted or corrupted image - and fails of course - so it gets completely stuck: there is no getting past the error popup which says " ! File can't be loaded!" [the only option to respond is "OK", which just closes the app again, and you're back to square one].

At the very least, this needs better error handling.
Better still, just stop reloading old images again. If we want them again, we'll get them again . Even if there were no problems with deleted images, it slows down the startup process.

Regards,
Ray

[xnview]

Ok, a bug...

you need to disabled session saving

[Kiwi_John]

Hi Pierre. I have the same issue - how do we disable session saving?
I can't start xnviewmp even after deleting and re-installing...

[xnview]

are you able to edit the xnview.ini?

[Kiwi_John]

Hi Pierre, can't find a file called xnview.ini on my mac anywhere (nor any other editable xnview.* file....).
Thanks

[xnview]

on mac, you have it in ~/.xnviewmp folder

[Kiwi_John]

Thanks Pierre. I found the ini file and changed sessionsave to false but still getting the "File can't be loaded!" error when I try to start Xnviewmp. That happens both when I click on a file to open and also when I just try to start Xnviewmp from the Applications.

[XnTriq]

Welcome aboard, Kiwi_John (-:

1. Close XnViewMP.
2. Delete the following lines from the [Start] section of your INI file:
   • session=
   • sessionIdx=
   • sessionSave=
3. Start XnViewMP.
4. Go to Tools » Settings... » General » General:
   • Deactivate Confirm 'Session' saving on program exit.
   • Click the Reset all confirm prompts button.
5. Confirm the changed settings with OK.

[Kiwi_John]

Thanks! That did the trick - much appreciated.