Symbolic links?

[RMMM]

I'm using macOS (current version, with current version of XnViewMP).

When I visit a directory containing symbolic links to image files, they don't appear in the XnViewMP file browser. For instance, if the following is the output of ls -l dir1 is
lrwxr-xr-x 1 rmmm staff 16 Jan 21 22:50 howdy.jpg -> ../dir2/howdy.jpg
then I don't see howdy.jpg when visiting dir1 in XnViewMP.

Is this expected, or am I doing something wrong?

[xnview]

I've tried and link is visible correctly. even if you use Filter>All

[RMMM]

I am not seeing that. As near as I can tell, the following is my situation.

I realized the problem seems to be related to macOS security. I have to grant "Full Disk Access" privileges in System Settings to XnViewMP or it can't see any links. (XnViewMP doesn't alert the user about this, it simply quietly ignores all links if these privileges aren't granted. I discovered this problem by using an alternative image viewer to XnViewMP which alerted me to the problem.)

However, this only seems to apply for the boot drive. On some removable drives, I still don't see links at all.

[xnview]

However, this only seems to apply for the boot drive. On some removable drives, I still don't see links at all.

Do you use FAT on these drives?

[hh4711]

On my Mac (macOS 15.4.1; XnView MP 1.8.8 ) it works without full disk access. I often use real unix symbolic links, not Apple's alias files, for organizing different selections of my pictures.