Custom Filter for "Folder Thumbnails"

[uksamo]

Can you please add an additional custom filter called "Folder Thumbnail", similar to the "Parent Folder" one, that will allow users to check whether folder.jpg files are visible or not when custom filtering is applied?

Example use case: Albums are sorted in a hierarchy of Decade > Year > Event, so only the Event folders typically contain the actual photos. I copy a favourite photo from one of the events into the Year folder and rename it to folder.jpg. I then copy my favourite year folder.jpg it to the decade folder. This makes browsing photos visually pleasing, but leaves a load of folder.jpg files cluttering up the views when navigating through the folders. Being able to hide these photos but retaining them for use by the folder's Thumbnail would improve the browsing experience.

Thanks.

[michel038]

Maybe use Windows explorer to hide these folder.jpg files, and then un-mark Settings > File list > Show hidden files in xnviewmp ?

[jkm]

As Michel038 says, mark them as hidden. You don't even need to use Explorer. Use Search to find them all, select them, right-click, properties, mark as hidden.

[uksamo]

As Michel038 says, mark them as hidden. You don't even need to use Explorer. Use Search to find them all, select them, right-click, properties, mark as hidden.

I'm using MacOS and images are accessed over a SMB network share. If I hide them by preceding the file name with a period, the image will be hidden but XnView then no longer uses them for the folder thumbnail.

[uksamo]

Maybe use Windows explorer to hide these folder.jpg files, and then un-mark Settings > File list > Show hidden files in xnviewmp ?

Thanks, this doesn't appear to work, please see my other reply to jkm.

[jkm]

Did I say to rename the files? If you're on Mac, you can use the chflags command to make them hidden.

[uksamo]

Did I say to rename the files? If you're on Mac, you can use the chflags command to make them hidden.

The files are stored on a Linux server with an ext4 formatted hard drive and shared with the Mac via SMB where they're managed. chflags previously failed, with the renaming method initially appearing to be the only way to hide files at the OS level, however, I've since enabled vfs_fruit within the Samba configuration at the server end, that command does appear to hide the files thanks, it's just not the most practical of solutions. Every time I need to manage a folder thumbnail I have to jump out of XnView to show and hide them either via a script or terminal. It would be far simpler if I could just toggle the filter drop down within the toolbar.