XnView Software

Shortcuts to folders don't work. But shortcuts to files do. The problem is that if you double-click a shortcut to a folder, it opens a Windows Explorer window instead of moving XnView's Browser to the linked folder. Please fix.

Previously reported in several places. Please use search function for "shortcut folder".
Right-click-open shortcut
--->Closed(Duplicate).

Er, no, it's NOT what you linked to, marsh: the problem is that if you double-click a shortcut to a folder, it opens a Windows Explorer window instead of moving XnView's Browser to the linked folder, it's a new issue and not a closed one.

Sorry. Wrong article referenced inside topic. You're right, it is an unresolved problem. Duplicate topics were often moved to "Closed" during in past testing experiments: 1.80, 1.82 (They were typically stamped [duplicate] in subject title also).

marsh, why is this topic still under "Closed" while it's not? it seemed to me you had already moved it but I must have been mistaken...

I'd like a comment from Pierre, it seems to me XnView lacks "support" for folders in several instances (autothumbnailing, here, etc.)

Looks as issue is still open. -> "New/Open"

robc wrote:marsh, why is this topic still under "Closed" while it's not? it seemed to me you had already moved it but I must have been mistaken...

I'd like a comment from Pierre, it seems to me XnView lacks "support" for folders in several instances (autothumbnailing, here, etc.)

Is there not a duplicate topic listed as fixed in RC2?
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=40484#40484

It seems duplicated, but I'm not sure: see what ckit says for example.

The point here is that a double-clicked folder shortcut opens the folder in explorer while in my opinion it should move the browser in XnView to the physical folder it points to. I have everything set to open in the associated program, also.

OK, this is what it happens with RC1 on a folder shortcut, in what I hope is a clearer description:

- double-click it: it opens with Windows Explorer
- right-click it and select open: nothing happens
- right-click it and select open|with associated program: it opens with Windows Explorer.

It's now obvious that a folder is treated like an image file, which it shouldn't, it's a "container": a shortcut should either
- open the file it points to in XnView or in the associated program (according to the setting) if it's a shortcut to a file
- navigate the browser to the folder it points to if it's a shortcut to a folder.

Fixed in RC2. Thanks!