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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.
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

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 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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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??
:D
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! :-D Many thanks

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

Best wishes