Asking for a way to prevent XnViewMP from crashing
Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 1:14 pm
Hello to everybody,
first of all, allow me to thank to author of XnView for this invaluable piece of software. I have been using it for quite a long time, first on Windows and now on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), and its completeness, professionality, configurability and ease of use still amaze me.
Yesterday though, I have run into a curious behaviour: XnViewMP crashes consistently in catalogue mode, upon trying to examine a single file, which isn't even a picture. It is a 17 kb .sav binary file, a savegame exported by the flash game "Monster's Den: Chronicles". If I activate catalogue mode in a directory containing that single file, even nested into a subfolder, cataloguer crashes with Segmentation Fault while generating thumbnails. Curiously, this doesn't happen with the other savefiles, which live in the same folder of the culprit.
Of course the file itself is not important, but as it's burned together with a lot of pictures in a DL-DVD, it's preventing me to browse the disk; also, I'd like to understand why XnView isn't ignoring it, as I instructed it to, by adding the "sav" extension to the list of exclusions in "File list -> Custom filter". I un-checked the boxes under "Visible", "Show thumbnail" and "Show preview" for excluded filetypes and have the cataloguer set to "Custom filter". Is there anything else I should do?
I am attaching the file if somebody wants to have a look at it. It's a binary file which I inspected with a hex editor, and looks quite similar to the others of its kind.
EDIT: XnViewMP 0.68 under Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr", Unity.
first of all, allow me to thank to author of XnView for this invaluable piece of software. I have been using it for quite a long time, first on Windows and now on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), and its completeness, professionality, configurability and ease of use still amaze me.
Yesterday though, I have run into a curious behaviour: XnViewMP crashes consistently in catalogue mode, upon trying to examine a single file, which isn't even a picture. It is a 17 kb .sav binary file, a savegame exported by the flash game "Monster's Den: Chronicles". If I activate catalogue mode in a directory containing that single file, even nested into a subfolder, cataloguer crashes with Segmentation Fault while generating thumbnails. Curiously, this doesn't happen with the other savefiles, which live in the same folder of the culprit.
Of course the file itself is not important, but as it's burned together with a lot of pictures in a DL-DVD, it's preventing me to browse the disk; also, I'd like to understand why XnView isn't ignoring it, as I instructed it to, by adding the "sav" extension to the list of exclusions in "File list -> Custom filter". I un-checked the boxes under "Visible", "Show thumbnail" and "Show preview" for excluded filetypes and have the cataloguer set to "Custom filter". Is there anything else I should do?
I am attaching the file if somebody wants to have a look at it. It's a binary file which I inspected with a hex editor, and looks quite similar to the others of its kind.
EDIT: XnViewMP 0.68 under Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr", Unity.
