XnView Software

Hi XnView Team,

Unfortunaly there are further problems by handling the descript.ion file during single rename or batch rename of picture files.
Due to the complexity, I describe the errors by screenshots. I hope this will be helpy.

Starting point for both scenarios:

Error by single renme action:

Result: Both files are renamed according the file list settings, but error in the descript.ion file


Error by batch rename action:
Result:Both files are renamed according the file list settings, but error in the descript.ion file, here with a temporary entry

Here my file list settings:


My SW Setup: Win 11 22H2 / XnView MP 1.5.4


I hope I have described the error well enough

Thanks to your detailed description I can reproduce the problem.

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.6.0. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

Hi Pierre,
I just installed version 1.6.1 of XnView MP and tested the bug fix. Here is the result:

Single Rename action: Same misbehavior as before.

Batch Rename action: Now shows the same error pattern as Single Rename

Changes to my system in the meantime:
Ongoing Win 11 updates.
Cleaning out my Companion File List (see attachment)

i 'm not able to reproduce. What do you have in Settings>Metadata>Sidecar?

OTRAG wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 2:52 pm Screenshot 2023-10-19 164942.png

Do you have always problem if you change to 'NO' for jpeg?

yes, the error remains for both scenarios

OTRAG wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:28 pm yes, the error remains for both scenarios

please send me your xnview.ini?

attached my ini file

i can only reproduce if .JPG is used in descript.ion and not .jpg. But why do you have .JPG?

Hi Pierre,

the .ARW and .JPG files come directly from my Sony A6600.
Normally I rename the raw files via batch rename immediately after import (as well as the .JPG as companian file).

Example:
DSC01312.RAW as well as DSC01312.JPG rename to 2023-10-22_144020.RAW as well as 2023-10-22_144020.jpg
The case of the file extensions is the result of the renaming.

But I often get error messages from Batch Rename (see also my sparate, still open error message), so I rename manually. Here .JPG remains as result and is consequently taken over later into the Descipt.ion file.

I have tested renaming .jpg and .JPG files. The error in the Descript.ion file occurs only with .JPG files.

So far so good. But why is there a differentiation between jpg and JPG in Xnview MP?

See issue for current status and some details.

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.6.2. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

Hi Pierre,

I have just installed and tested version 1.6.2.
The error I reported has been fixed.
Thank you very much for this great program and your great support