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Chris Dubea
Senior Member
And it has support for a large number of raw picture formats
Chris
- Experimental support for digital camera RAW formats:
Chris
Cassandra59044
Veteran Member
Thanks for the update. Is it recommended to uninstall an older version of Irfanview before installing this one?
Cassandra
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Chris Dubea
Senior Member
I seriously doubt it. IrfanView is one of those wonderful programs that DOESN"T install a whole bunch of other files. It's basically just the exe and a few registry changes and even those are optional.
Good luck,
Chris
Good luck,
Chris
fenlander
Forum Enthusiast
Cassandra59044
Veteran Member
Howard Herscovitch
Well-known member
V3.8 seems to work ok BUT, like V3.75 it wouldn't display my D30 raw
files of the form XXX_XXXX_CRW. When I remove the CRW from the
filename it works fine. Anybody know why?
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Gerry Pasternack
Guest
Can I move Irfanview from one PC to another by simply copying the profram file?
BillyBob
Senior Member
Sure but you won't be able to use it. It must be installed on the PC that you want to move it to. It's an application and therefore unlike a typical file which can be moved around, an application (program) must be installed before it can be used.
BillyBob
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Phil Sexton83509
Leading Member
Thanks for the info.
These folks are wonderful. All for free!
TonyK_in_Texas
Senior Member
Not entirely true.
All I had to do for myself was to copy the folder where the EXE and plug-in folder was to another computer and start using it.
Not all applications have to be installed. Some are smart enough to search the registry to see if their information is there. If not, it sets default information until the user configures the application.
TonyK
All I had to do for myself was to copy the folder where the EXE and plug-in folder was to another computer and start using it.
Not all applications have to be installed. Some are smart enough to search the registry to see if their information is there. If not, it sets default information until the user configures the application.
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Marty Scher B
Senior Member
Unfortunate.
Since it does not use a database or cached thumbnails, I wait nearly 10 minutes to build thumbnails in a folder with 1800 images. This on a 1ghz P4 with 512MB RAM.
ACDSEE 5.0 will create the same thumbs in about 15 seconds.
At least it's free.
Since it does not use a database or cached thumbnails, I wait nearly 10 minutes to build thumbnails in a folder with 1800 images. This on a 1ghz P4 with 512MB RAM.
ACDSEE 5.0 will create the same thumbs in about 15 seconds.
At least it's free.
So, don't use it !
Marty Scher B
Senior Member
I was merely reporting about a limitation that effects users with a large number of images, which are many with the popularity of digicams.
Just because an application is "free", does not necessarily mean it is a good value, especially if it means wasting a user's valuable time.
Irfanview has been around long enough to have something as elementary as thumbnail painting nailed down. They do not.
Regards
Just because an application is "free", does not necessarily mean it is a good value, especially if it means wasting a user's valuable time.
Irfanview has been around long enough to have something as elementary as thumbnail painting nailed down. They do not.
Regards
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Truelight
Guest
That's exactly why I -do- like it... no taking up my valuable drive space with databases or cache thumbnails. I have ACDSee 4.0 (not sure I wanna spend the $$$ for the 5.0 "upgrade). ACDSee frequently "chokes" when it sees a .jpg image it doesn't seem to think is correct while Irfanview has -never- let me down. Simple, elegant, and most of all - reliable. Even if it weren't free, I'd own Irfanview. All programs should be as troublefree!
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fenlander
Forum Enthusiast
Seems to me that having 1800 photos in one folder is like having 1800 letters in one folder. Not good filing technique...
fenlander
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Tricia
Veteran Member
Very true - I have thousands of photos on my computer, but no one folder has more than about 150 (and that's my "miscellaneous dump" folder for prints that are either deleted later or moved to other folders to keep).
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Marty Scher B
Senior Member
The fact that in another test, Irfanview took nearly 40 seconds to refresh thumbs in a folder with 141 images, really shows my stupidity for having large folders. Besides, even the lowly XP Explorer took only about 4 seconds to refresh the 141 images (non-cached).
Large folders are not a problem for image manangement tools that allow cataloging, search keywords, etc. and have a decent search function. I'm evaluating ACDSee and Imatch (others too), but also wanted to look at the new Irfanview, especially since it is free.
Maybe I should take my 9,000 images total and divide them into folders of 10 images each. Infanview seems to load 10 images pretty quickly.
If people are into Irfanview (and I'm aware there are many), that is great.
Just don't treat others like they have rocks in their heads, just because they point out an unreasonable limitation (IMO), with the product.
Regards
Large folders are not a problem for image manangement tools that allow cataloging, search keywords, etc. and have a decent search function. I'm evaluating ACDSee and Imatch (others too), but also wanted to look at the new Irfanview, especially since it is free.
Maybe I should take my 9,000 images total and divide them into folders of 10 images each. Infanview seems to load 10 images pretty quickly.
If people are into Irfanview (and I'm aware there are many), that is great.
Just don't treat others like they have rocks in their heads, just because they point out an unreasonable limitation (IMO), with the product.
Regards
fenlander
Forum Enthusiast
I use MS Publisher for short documents I can't handle in Word. It's useless for publlishing books, but hey, if I wanted to publish books I'd get Framemaker or some such heavyweight and pay the price.
Irfanview doesn't have any pretensions to be Photoshop. It does what it sets out to do and does it better than any other free program I can think of. If you want to run a photographic publishing house, it's not what you need. Don't complain - get your credit card out and buy some software that suits your requirements.
fenlander
Irfanview doesn't have any pretensions to be Photoshop. It does what it sets out to do and does it better than any other free program I can think of. If you want to run a photographic publishing house, it's not what you need. Don't complain - get your credit card out and buy some software that suits your requirements.
fenlander
Marty Scher B
Senior Member
Sorry, I though free speech was allowed on this forum, even if it involved criticizing "pet" products.
Since you profess to know Irfanview well, then you should not be surprised by this quote from their web site:
"IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.
It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerfull for professionals"
My original point (or criticism, for the faithful), was that it is really not that fast for thumbnails, even in smaller folders.
I will now go away now an leave you all be. Enjoy your fine product ; )
Regards
Good for you.
Photoshop is an image editing program, not an image viewer.
Since you profess to know Irfanview well, then you should not be surprised by this quote from their web site:
"IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.
It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerfull for professionals"
My original point (or criticism, for the faithful), was that it is really not that fast for thumbnails, even in smaller folders.
I will now go away now an leave you all be. Enjoy your fine product ;
Regards
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