Batch processing images, skip waiting for generating meta?

[d4rk0n3]

Hi,

I often use XNview to batch rename my images in various ways, xnview is absolutely wonderful in this regard, however i do have a question.

Everytime i open a folder with 1000 images and i want to rename them, there's a "process bar" down in the right corner, i do not know what this process is doing since i am not displaying thumbnails, but it appears this process maybe reading image data to display resolution and other embedded data inside the images.

I do not care for this data, and i really don't want to wait to rename all the files until xnview has prrocessed all the images meta data. Is there a way to make XNview ignore this completely?

Thanks for this free wonderful program!

[d4rk0n3]

i guess not, to bad :/ really annoying having to wait 5 minutes when doing work on large amount of images :/ perhaps a feature for the future to disable the scanning of embedded meta data as some users may not want to see it anyway.

[helmut]

Hmm, could you please check how files are displayed in the XnView browser:

1. Start XnView (and open XnView browser)
2. Menu "View > View as...")
--> Which of the menu items is checked? Could you please try and check "Details"? Is it still slow? if yes, could you please try and check "List"?

[d4rk0n3]

Both acts exactly the same, list and details...

But!

It appears if i have details, it starts doing whatever loading thing it does, i switch to list... it starts loading again, then i switch back to details and i have no load time, not a nice solution but i guess that works somehow, i have no idea what it is loading though. It's the load bar in the bottom right that i have to wait for to finish or else i can write or change all the images due to them being read by xnview.

[d4rk0n3]

Nevermind my previous post, that was just a fluke for some reason.

Generating "Type" meta cannot be skipped! Large images take around 1 second to process 5 "type", imagine having 20 000 images you wish to rename and it takes 1 second for 5 images to process... that's a lot of wasted time for nothing, can you give us an option to opt out of any reading of the tags? or atleast a "cancel button" in the bottom right corner to skip the process that's going on.



Not complaining here, xnview is a tremendously helpful program and free, just trying to improve it, have a good day!

[xnview]

Generating "Type" meta cannot be skipped! Large images take around 1 second to process 5 "type", imagine having 20 000 images you wish to rename and it takes 1 second for 5 images to process... that's a lot of wasted time for nothing, can you give us an option to opt out of any reading of the tags? or atleast a "cancel button" in the bottom right corner to skip the process that's going on.

1 second for each picture file to get metadata information, strange?? Could you send me one file?