Portable XnView.db

[markdfink]

I use an external hard drive with copies of all my images so that at lunch when I'm at my day job, I can look up and work on images. Then I synchronize the external drive with my internal drive at home. (I use Beyond Compare 2, which works great). What I noticed is that after launching XnView, I don't see the categories that I created while at work earlier today. Where is the category information stored? It doesn't seem to be in the XnView.db file.

My setup is that at home, the internal drive is H and the external drive is the G, but at work, it the external drive is H. So all paths in the XnView.db file point to H:\... Once I synchronize at home, I figured that XnView wouldn't notice any difference, since the "active" drive is always H.

Categories are what really got my interest in XnView, because Adobe Bridge doesn't have anything like it. Plus, Bridge is SO SLOW and a memory hog. XnView is the perfect!

Thanks,

Mark

[Clo]

markdfink

Hello !

• That's stored in a special file <category.db>, it might be located either in the XnView folder, or in the
<…\User_name…\XnView\> folder, according to your choices in the Options >> System Integration…

KR
Claude
Clo

[obelisk]

you can make it all in custom folder, to make a true portable xnview.

[Zottt]

Hi Obelisk,

XNView is close to portable as the folders are stored with driveletters and absolute paths in xnview.db and category.db.
I'd appreceate if this would be changed to relative paths like for example in the sld-files.

Zottt

[oops66]

...XNView is close to portable as the folders are stored with driveletters and absolute paths in xnview.db and category.db.
I'd appreceate if this would be changed to relative paths like for example in the sld-files...Zottt

Hello,
+1, I agree

[markdfink]

Success! Thanks so much for pointing me in the right direction.

Mark

[obelisk]

"changed to relative paths"
how would this work?
unless the xnview.db and category.db are in the same drive as your pics.
I know mine aren't!!

[Zottt]

Hi Obelisk!
If you have them all togehter on stick or CD then they are.
That is what is meant by "portable".
Regards!

[Zottt]

The database structure is pretty straight forward. I'd change the foldername by myself if somebody could tell me which is the base-directory to be used .

[horusofoz]

With permission of the software author one could package XnView into a PortableApps installer. This would create an entirely portable version of XnView,

[XnTriq]

With permission of the software author one could package XnView into a PortableApps installer. This would create an entirely portable version of XnView,

Install XnView on USB-stick?

[Zottt]

Pop!

I'm still looking for a way to have a portable XnView so i can have it together with it's configs and my pictures together with comments and ratings on usb stick and it will work with any driveletter for example.

My most recent xnview.ini please find below.

I noticed "CustomIniPathFolder=." works pretty well as a relative reference to have category.db in the working directory.
Unfortunately this doesn't work with PathCache. It appears that "SavingMode=2" requires PathCache to be assigned an absolute path.
I'd like to use "SavingMode=2" together with "PathCache=." so that XnView.db will be used from the working directory the same way like category.db.

Folders in XnView.db are stored as absolute references. So all ratings get lost when the usb-stick is assigned a different driveletter.
I'd like to suggest an option like "-config_path = ..." to replace all absolute references. It could be set at startup and hence point XnView to the current location of config and media files. All non-absolute references would be relative to config_path then.
For backwards compatibility it would default to the users home.

Comments are welcome!
Thanks.

Zottt

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