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I might be a classical question but i couldn't find anything like that in the forum:
i have pictures classified in a big folder tree with several subfolder level. something like this:

• 2004
  • January
    February
    ...
  2005
  • January
    ...

i would like to generate for each picture a thumbnail that is placed in a subfolder:

• 2004
  • January
    • thumbnails
    February
    • thumbnails
    ...
  2005
  • January
    • thumbnails
    ...

so i tried thumbnail\%.jpg or .\thumbnail\%.jpg etc. for destination deirectory option, but all is always generated in the same folder. is there any way to tell xnview to use relative path for generating transformed file, not absolute path?

Thks for any help
Thierry.

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tlegras wrote:I might be a classical question but i couldn't find anything like that in the forum:
i have pictures classified in a big folder tree with several subfolder level. something like this:

• 2004
  • January
    February
    ...
  2005
  • January
    ...

i would like to generate for each picture a thumbnail that is placed in a subfolder:

• 2004
  • January
    • thumbnails
    February
    • thumbnails
    ...
  2005
  • January
    • thumbnails
    ...

so i tried thumbnail\%.jpg or .\thumbnail\%.jpg etc. for destination deirectory option, but all is always generated in the same folder. is there any way to tell xnview to use relative path for generating transformed file, not absolute path?

Thks for any help
Thierry.

Batch rename or batch convert???

Thks for you quick answer.

Batch rename or batch convert???

i did not tried batch rename, but as far as i could see batch convert will save the transformed to the same thumbnail folder. so i have to repeat manually the operation for each folder (January/February, etc.). what i could like is to do once a batch convert for the whole hierarchy, and the thumbnails are generated each time in a local subfolder.
Is it possible?

tlegras wrote:Thks for you quick answer.

Batch rename or batch convert???

i did not tried batch rename, but as far as i could see batch convert will save the transformed to the same thumbnail folder. so i have to repeat manually the operation for each folder (January/February, etc.). what i could like is to do once a batch convert for the whole hierarchy, and the thumbnails are generated each time in a local subfolder.
Is it possible?

Right % is only used for original filename, you have no character for original folder...

With XnView 1.90 this is possible using the $ placeholders. Please see topic "relative paths in batch convert" for more details.