XnView Software

99.9% of the archives I have won't work, they just get a "format of the file <...> could not be determined" message. I first tried some existing files, then tried creating a zip, rar, and 7z file from scratch, none of them worked. There are only a handful of files which work at all (I don't know what the diff is between them and the others), and even they don't truly work. They only load the first image in the file (they don't give you an option to choose an image in the archive when you load it, and they don't give you an option to go to the next/previous page as though it were a multipage image).

Edit: I was just checking this out in the alpha version (alpha 2, to be specific), and it exhibits the exact same behavior.

I have multiple RAR archives (most solid state) and they all work.

However, I do have weird results with multiple folders showing in "My Backups.rar" which gets updated regularly.

ckit wrote: However, I do have weird results with multiple folders showing in "My Backups.rar" which gets updated regularly.

Same here.
Compare RAR archive to same ZIP archive of Xnview beta-1 distribution.
With 'rar' version, duplicate folders are seen- 'Web Template' listed 3 times. 'skins' twice.
Also with .rar, folders are left behind in temporary folder. This does not occur when looking at beta-1 zip.

Hello !

• Globally, the archives work fine for me, now we have also the *.SQX ones I requested
and that TC and SC users (and I of course) use a lot. All are Solid (single data flow¦block) and work.

• Please, give a look to THAT THREAD where the topic is discussed too, and from which you may get two archive-samples, one of mine and one from user foxyshadis.

• There is also a snag when using archives for viewing in XnView I reported THERE

 KR
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Tried both files in that thread, they both give me the "format could not be determined" error.

Grab the first issue shown on this page: http://www.aibq.com/lsh1_1.php (with the yellow cover). That (and other issues from that site) are the only ones that work at all for me (and they only display the first image in the archive).

These are simple test files I made, all of which give me the "format could not be determined" error. They contain a handful of gif files, with simple names, and no folders:
http://drahken.t35.com/Documents.zip
http://drahken.t35.com/XNV-test-LZMA-nonsolid.7z
http://drahken.t35.com/XNV-test-LZMA.7z
http://drahken.t35.com/XNV-test.rar
http://drahken.t35.com/XNV-test.zip

http://i10.tinypic.com/4g8sydx.png
No problems here. All the archives work.

Did some more poking around and discovered a few things:
1) Some archives will open in browse mode, but if you try to open them in viewer mode you get the "cannot determine filetype" error. (Strange that the prog can open them fine in one mode, but not recognize them in another.)
2) Some files still don't work, but these have the images within a folder within the archive.
3) The files must have a zip/rar/7z/etc extension. If you change the extension, xnview won't recognize it as an archive. (The files which it would only read the first page are rars with the extension changed to "cbr". When I change the extension to "rar", it will show all the pages (but only in browse mode).)

Drahken wrote:Did some more poking around and discovered a few things:
1) Some archives will open in browse mode, but if you try to open them in viewer mode you get the "cannot determine filetype" error. (Strange that the prog can open them fine in one mode, but not recognize them in another.)

I have no problem to open your archive samples in browser mode, but currently you can't open archive file in view mode

2) Some files still don't work, but these have the images within a folder within the archive.

Do you have a sample?

3) The files must have a zip/rar/7z/etc extension. If you change the extension, xnview won't recognize it as an archive. (The files which it would only read the first page are rars with the extension changed to "cbr". When I change the extension to "rar", it will show all the pages (but only in browse mode).)

Yes, XnView use extension to be able to uncompress it...

http://rapidshare.com/files/4648085/test.zip.html
When you open it in browser mode, it appears to be an empty file. When you open the archive normally (via winzip or winrar or whatever), you see that there are images within a folder within the archive.

Anyone know where we stand with this issue?

ckit wrote:Anyone know where we stand with this issue?

This bug report is in group "Retest (Fixed in Beta 2". So this is supposed to be fixed and needs retesting.

Retested, problem still exists in beta2. Xnview is still incapable of "seeing" folders that are within archives. I made a second test archive to check something, I placed some images within a folder in the archive, and another image in at the same level as the folder (when you open the archive in an archiving prog, you see the image and the folder, then you go into the folder to see the other images). Xnview can see the top level image fine, but still doesn't see the folder.

Drahken wrote:Retested, problem still exists in beta2. Xnview is still incapable of "seeing" folders that are within archives. I made a second test archive to check something, I placed some images within a folder in the archive, and another image in at the same level as the folder (when you open the archive in an archiving prog, you see the image and the folder, then you go into the folder to see the other images). Xnview can see the top level image fine, but still doesn't see the folder.

Please send me an archive test?

That's the same behavior I still get. I tried using default ini and some option variations, I'm just not sure what difference my system might have to others' that work.

The one I posted earlier ( http://rapidshare.com/files/4648085/test.zip.html ) is the one I used to retest. It just has 3 images in a folder within the archive. This one: http://rapidshare.com/files/6316799/test2.zip.html has 2 images within a folder within the archive, and a third image in the archive alongside the folder.