XnView Software

I have been trying to get this to work for years with no luck.

I am trying to use XNView as a video library and just use catalog filter to navigate instead of folder structure. I am trying to use quick filter to filter the categories i have created but it just does it by file name no matter what i do.

I have it set to categoeries (catalog) in only in settings>browser>quick filter
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So to summarise

If i search rain while having the top category selected it selects anything with the filename rain and misses anything that i have "tagged" as rain.

on image files, it works?

I ran a test and it doesn't work for images either. I had just tested it on videos at that point.

what are your settings>Metadata & settings>Sidecar?

Here you go. Thanks for helping

please use latest version

I tried that but It didn't help .

Is there a setting there that can help?

Here is what i have now but i still doesn't search assigned categories

the assigned categories are written in catalog only or in embedded XMP? when you click on the file in browser, it shows you categories?

Sorry I am a little confused but i think its only the catalog.

When you say browser i am assume you mean in XnView? Its showed the little icon saying there is a catalog on the thumbnail while browsing the folder window

i can't reproduce, so you add a category on video file and put it in 'quick filter'?? please send us your xnview.ini

Sure. I can't figure it out.

I couldn't upload it direct so its in my google drive

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... drive_link

thanks a lot for looking into it

i have no access

Sorry i granted you access.

thanks again

with your .ini, i have a folder with 3 video files. I select one and apply 'cat1'. In quick filter, i enter cat, and i have the video file