XnView Software

XnView MP 1.8.5 macOS Catalina Version 10.15.7 (19H2026)

The old problem persists.
When I start XnView MP, select a thumbnail, click EXIFTool, all variables are displayed:


But when I select another thumbnail, the EXIFTool veriables are chopped off:


I've already re-installed XnView several times, but the strange behavior remains. I've even deleted the hidden files in the User/.config/xnviewmp except for the Thumb.db and the XnView.db files without success.

I have not the slightes idea what causes the issue.

Any help will be appreciated.

you had similar problem before, right? do you have the issue only on tiff or all formats?

Yes, same problem as before. Just thought it would be solved with a new release.

The issue is for all file formats: .NEF, .ARW, .TIFF, .TIF, .JPG.

i don't have anymore a MacOS 10.15 to test...

Seems to be a problem.

There must have been something you have changed or modified. Looks like a switch that is not reset after the first use of the EXIFTool.

It's so strange, that after a restart the first use of the tool displays everything correctly and without a glitch, but not the next files.

now i keep the instance of ExifTool in memory to speedup

IMPORTANT UPDATE INFORMATION

Pierre,

I guess I have found the problem. If you add the option -m while accessing EXIFTOOLS, everything should work flawlessly.

Just by chance I discovered, that I could not update files with the command line of EXIFTOOL, because it could not read hidden data.

See this discussion at exiftool.org: https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=16210.0

I've tried the -m option/switch, and voilà, the command line exiftool worked like a charm.

However, I don't know how to integrated the -m option/switch into XNviewMP, but maybe you can test it or send me a file to test it on macOS Catalina.

could you send me a sample file that produce error in exiftool?

Thanks to your detailed description I can reproduce the problem.

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.8.7. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

Hi Pierre,

thank you so very much, you are a genius! Yes, it works like a charm with Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, TIFF, JPEG, PNG…

It is just wonderful. Let's celebrate it: The EXIF is back in XnView MP