XnView Software

When performing certain operations, XnView will modify the original file directly, and, optionally, create a backup file. For example, lossless operations on JPEG files, like cropping. I would very much prefer to have the option for this to be done the other way around, so that when I do a lossless crop a new file is created for the cropped version and the original file is left untouched. leaving me with the choice of deleting it renaming it if I so desire.
This way, one could also take several crop outs of different areas of the same picture.

original.jpg
original -- crop01.jpg
original -- crop02.jpg

Also, and I say this from the standpoint of not knowing how XnView MP deals with this, but generally, I prefer a "full-macroblock" approach, so that all macroblocks that land even a single pixel inside my cropping area should be included in the new file and fully visible, exceeding the cropping area if necessary.

Thanks.

Also, please include an option to set the default answer for the deletion confirmation to "Yes", so that I can do faster removals pressing "delete" and "enter" one after another. It's not as safe as defaulting to no, but it's still two key presses instead of one, and if sending the file to trash rather than straight up deleting, you can still fish it up from the trash. It's my preferred intermediate safety level between not asking confirmation at all, and requiring two keystrokes or pressing two distant keys by moving on hand between them or using both hands). Del and Enter are very close in most keyboards and it's easy to use the same hand in a fixed position. Del and Y not so much at all. Would be nice to have such two button deletion sequence as an option.

If you want to safeguard the original file, simply make a duplicate copy.