Solved: Problem with great big huge folder

[kauffmanst]

I bought XnView MP to replace Adobe Bridge. I wanted to be able to categorize my 3000+ vectors to make my projects run more smoothly.

Anyway, I began categorizing off and on for a few months, then realized that I had been categorizing two different folders. So I combined the two folders by copying them both to a new folder - through XnView, so the categories would be preserved.

So I have a folder with 3000+ images, ready for further categorizing. I now have most of my vectors all in one place.

I opened up the folder to begin work. XnView loaded up to 75% and then crashed. I rebooted the computer and tried again. Same result. I tried again, and this time moved through the folder, selecting the thumbnails of various images, hoping to fool the program into completing the load. I got up to 94%, and then it crashed again.

So my question is this, is my folder too big (3800 files, totalling some 19.6 gig), is some XnView file corrupted from moving the files, or some other thing at work? The drive has 233 gig left, so that's not the problem. Ideas?

[xnview]

do you have sent the crash dump?

[kauffmanst]

do you have sent the crash dump?

Hi Pierre, in my understanding, there is supposed to be a popup asking if you want to save the dump file. Whether or not this is correct, no popup occurred nor any message appeared, other than the Windows crash message. I've looked over the folders that contain XnView documents, but see nothing that was written around the time of the crash.

TLDR; I can find no dump file.

Can you direct me to where it might be?

Thank you,

JD
Kauffman Street Graphics

[kauffmanst]

Does anyone know where the dump file would be? Thank you.

[kauffmanst]

I bought a laptop running Windows 10 and XnView MP crashed on the same folder, again without a popup. So I figure the problem is in folder size. I'll cut it back a bit and post the results. XnView Classic, BTW, has no difficulty on either machine. MP of course is so much better for my purposes that I have to keep trying!

[kauffmanst]

FINALLY found the problem.

I had a certain AI file that would cause MP to crash. Removing the file or resave it in my version (13) removed the problem.