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cannot clear the history
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 4:47 am
by Lehry
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.
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.
Unfortunately these settings did not work.
Can you help me? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance and best regards
Re: cannot clear the history
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 12:45 pm
by XnTriq
You might have inadvertently saved a “
session”.
Please go to
Tools →
Settings… →
General →
General and click the
Reset all confirm prompts button.
XnTriq wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2016 8:30 pmcarrabino wrote:Where exactly do we manage sessions?
Tools »
Settings... »
General »
General »
Confirm 'Session' saving on program exit
Alternative method:
- Reset all confirm prompts in Tools » Settings... » General » General.
- Open an image in the viewer and quit XnView.
- 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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Re: cannot clear the history
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 5:41 am
by Lehry
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
Re: cannot clear the history
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:32 am
by xnview
where is the history?
Re: cannot clear the history
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:38 am
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?
Re: cannot clear the history
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:45 am
by xnview
It's not history but files that you have in the same folder
Re: cannot clear the history
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 1:06 pm
by Lehry
Ah, understand!
But can i disable this funktion?
Best wishes
Re: cannot clear the history
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 1:38 pm
by xnview
no, but why do you want to disable it?
Re: cannot clear the history
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 10:42 am
by Lehry
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!
Re: cannot clear the history
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 11:20 am
by xnview
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??
Re: cannot clear the history
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 12:49 pm
by michel038
xnview wrote: Tue Sep 28, 2021 11:20 am
Strange? But perhaps they want to disable mouse wheel to switch between files??
Tools, Settings, Interface, Mouse, Mouse wheel, Zoom in /out
is a good choice ...
Re: cannot clear the history
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:59 am
by Lehry
This could be a solution!

Many thanks
i´ll keep you updated as soon as i test it with a user.
Best wishes