Crash adding thumbnails

[DutchPeer]

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Hi everybody, I am new on this front, though I've been using XnView for MANY YEARS. What my experience is, is that sometimes thumbnails seem to get mutilated. You can easily check this, by moving all pictures OUT of the directory, and then moving them back in one by one (or any other way you would "isolate" the faulty one). You will (it never failed me so far) find out that once you've added the mutilated one, XnView will crash. Then move out ALL pics again, but leave the mutilated one in. Now start XnView again, and you will get a glance at the thumbnail that causes it all.

Startup XnView again, but pick a "correct" directory. Then CHANGE the thumbnail size, and thus force XnView to REGENERATE a thumbnail. Go back to the faulty one, and you will see that this WORKS. However, going back to the size that caused the error will not regen again, but XnView will fail.

Now here's the big question: HOW can we DELETE all thumbnails in a directory, and make XnView regen them (or force a direct regen ...).

I haven't found that one ... yet! Perhaps tech support can ... ?

Cheers.

Peer.

[DutchPeer]

My problem seems to have something to do with the value of UseEmbeddedTumbnail in the inifile (saw something about the inifile, and thought: let's have a look... thank you all for that). I switched it to 0 (from 1) and tried to open the directory again: regenerated thumbnail, and problem GONE!. Closed XnView, set UseEmbeddedThumnail to 1 again, and the problem did not reoccur!

Cheers again

Peer.