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Lehry
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cannot clear the history

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Good morning.

I have a problem with the history.
When I open an image, I always get a history displayed and I can scroll it by turning the mouse wheel.
See picture 1.
pic-1.jpg
This I would like to disable completely.
I went into the settings and set the maximum entries under Recent files to 0 and checked Purge Recent files and folders on exit. See pic 2.
pic-2.jpg
Unfortunately these settings did not work.

Can you help me? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance and best regards
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Re: cannot clear the history

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You might have inadvertently saved a “session”.
Please go to ToolsSettings…GeneralGeneral and click the Reset all confirm prompts button.
XnTriq wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2016 8:30 pm
carrabino wrote:Where exactly do we manage sessions?
Tools » Settings... » General » General » Confirm 'Session' saving on program exit

Alternative method:
  1. Reset all confirm prompts in Tools » Settings... » General » General.
  2. Open an image in the viewer and quit XnView.
  3. You'll be asked to confirm if “you want to save this session” and if you want XnView to “show this message again”.
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Lehry
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Re: cannot clear the history

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Hi and good morning,

sorry for my late answer.
But unfortunatly all your tips doesn´t work for me. :-(

Do you have any other ideas?
Let me know if a can assist with more informationen.

Many many thanks in advanced and best wishes
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Re: cannot clear the history

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where is the history?
Pierre.
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Re: cannot clear the history

Post by Lehry »

Hi.

As an example:
I had 5 images open, then close XNView and open a new image with a double click, this image is displayed to me. So beautiful so good.
But what I then see is that XNView shows me at the bottom left how many pictures I once had open. You can see this in my first picture above.
If I then turn the mouse wheel, I can even change the pictures.
However, I would like XNView to forget that it has already displayed certain images.

Is that possible?
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Re: cannot clear the history

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It's not history but files that you have in the same folder
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Re: cannot clear the history

Post by Lehry »

Ah, understand!

But can i disable this funktion?

Best wishes
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Re: cannot clear the history

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no, but why do you want to disable it?
Pierre.
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Re: cannot clear the history

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That is a pity. :(
Our employees who use XNView find it very annoying.
Don't ask me why. :-)

So there is definitely no way?

Many thanks!
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Lehry wrote: Tue Sep 28, 2021 10:42 am That is a pity. :(
Our employees who use XNView find it very annoying.
Don't ask me why. :-)
Strange? But perhaps they want to disable mouse wheel to switch between files??
Pierre.
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xnview wrote: Tue Sep 28, 2021 11:20 am Strange? But perhaps they want to disable mouse wheel to switch between files??
:D
Tools, Settings, Interface, Mouse, Mouse wheel, Zoom in /out
is a good choice ...
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Re: cannot clear the history

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This could be a solution! :-D Many thanks

i´ll keep you updated as soon as i test it with a user.

Best wishes
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