IrfanView - locating folder?

If I ever knew how to do this then I've forgotten!

With an image open in IrfanView, how can I quickly open its Windows folder
with the file highlighted please?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:33:35 +0000, Terry Pinnell wrote:

With an image open in IrfanView, how can I quickly open its Windows folder
with the file highlighted please?

Define Explorer (or another file manager of your choice [it needs to
support command line parameters, of course]) as External Editor in
IrfanView (Options-Properties/Settings-Misc). If you use the first
slot for external editors, the Hotkey Shift+E is assigned.

You may need to experiment with Unicode Plugin setting (on/off - in
the Options-Properties/Settings-Language section), if you experience
problems starting the "editor" with all (or some certain) images.

BeAr
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Terry Pinnell wrote:

If I ever knew how to do this then I've forgotten!

With an image open in IrfanView, how can I quickly open its Windows folder
with the file highlighted please?

Okay, I'll bite. How did you open the file in the first place so it
showed up in IrfanView?

If it was, for example, an attachment in an e-mail, all e-mail gets sent
as plain text with attachments encoded into a long string inside a MIME
part within the body of the e-mail. That means the attachment has to be
decoded and saved in some file from where it can be opened by the
handler (Irfanview, in this case). For Outlook, that temp file is under
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKnnnn" where
nnnn is a random number generated during the installation of Outlook.
This also presumes you haven't change the TIF folder for the web browser
under which Outlook creates its temporary secure folder used to store
the decoded attachment into a file so it can be opened. If you are
using some other e-mail client, you will have to find out where it
decodes and saves a temp copy of an attachment that you "open" within
the e-mail client.

If you're looking at some web page image, a copy of it got downloaded
into the cache folder for your unidentified web browser.

VanguardLH wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:

If I ever knew how to do this then I've forgotten!

With an image open in IrfanView, how can I quickly open its Windows folder
with the file highlighted please?

Okay, I'll bite. How did you open the file in the first place so it
showed up in IrfanView?

If it was, for example, an attachment in an e-mail, all e-mail gets sent
as plain text with attachments encoded into a long string inside a MIME
part within the body of the e-mail. That means the attachment has to be
decoded and saved in some file from where it can be opened by the
handler (Irfanview, in this case). For Outlook, that temp file is under
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKnnnn" where
nnnn is a random number generated during the installation of Outlook.
This also presumes you haven't change the TIF folder for the web browser
under which Outlook creates its temporary secure folder used to store
the decoded attachment into a file so it can be opened. If you are
using some other e-mail client, you will have to find out where it
decodes and saves a temp copy of an attachment that you "open" within
the e-mail client.

If you're looking at some web page image, a copy of it got downloaded
into the cache folder for your unidentified web browser.

Thanks. I opened it from IrfanView Thumbnails View, which I've started
using as it offers better viewing and other features than Windows
Explorer.

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Terry Pinnell a formulé la demande :
VanguardLH wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:

If I ever knew how to do this then I've forgotten!

With an image open in IrfanView, how can I quickly open its Windows folder
with the file highlighted please?

Okay, I'll bite. How did you open the file in the first place so it
showed up in IrfanView?

If it was, for example, an attachment in an e-mail, all e-mail gets sent
as plain text with attachments encoded into a long string inside a MIME
part within the body of the e-mail. That means the attachment has to be
decoded and saved in some file from where it can be opened by the
handler (Irfanview, in this case). For Outlook, that temp file is under
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKnnnn" where
nnnn is a random number generated during the installation of Outlook.
This also presumes you haven't change the TIF folder for the web browser
under which Outlook creates its temporary secure folder used to store
the decoded attachment into a file so it can be opened. If you are
using some other e-mail client, you will have to find out where it
decodes and saves a temp copy of an attachment that you "open" within
the e-mail client.

If you're looking at some web page image, a copy of it got downloaded
into the cache folder for your unidentified web browser.

Thanks. I opened it from IrfanView Thumbnails View, which I've started
using as it offers better viewing and other features than Windows
Explorer.
In Options-Extensions check Browse Readers/Folders. This will add an
option to your right-click menu for disks and folders.

Terry Pinnell wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:

If I ever knew how to do this then I've forgotten!

With an image open in IrfanView, how can I quickly open its Windows folder
with the file highlighted please?

Okay, I'll bite. How did you open the file in the first place so it
showed up in IrfanView?

If it was, for example, an attachment in an e-mail, all e-mail gets sent
as plain text with attachments encoded into a long string inside a MIME
part within the body of the e-mail. That means the attachment has to be
decoded and saved in some file from where it can be opened by the
handler (Irfanview, in this case). For Outlook, that temp file is under
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKnnnn" where
nnnn is a random number generated during the installation of Outlook.
This also presumes you haven't change the TIF folder for the web browser
under which Outlook creates its temporary secure folder used to store
the decoded attachment into a file so it can be opened. If you are
using some other e-mail client, you will have to find out where it
decodes and saves a temp copy of an attachment that you "open" within
the e-mail client.

If you're looking at some web page image, a copy of it got downloaded
into the cache folder for your unidentified web browser.

Thanks. I opened it from IrfanView Thumbnails View, which I've started
using as it offers better viewing and other features than Windows
Explorer.

That is an alternative to Windows Explorer. If you go by Ederson's
suggestion, you end up opening whatever is the handler for the filetype
of the image file. You won't end up opening Windows Explorer with the
file pre-selected.

You can right-click on the folder in the tree list on the left but that
just opens the folder and doesn't highlight the file(s) you selected.

If you're just trying to list the files you selected in IrfanView
Thumbnails viewer, select the files and right-click to then save the
list as a .txt file. You can use that .txt file in a batch file or
another program. To see that same list of image files in Irfanview, use
the "Options - Load files list from TXT file" menu in the Irfanview
Thumbnails viewer.

milsabords wrote:

Terry Pinnell a formulé la demande :
VanguardLH wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:

If I ever knew how to do this then I've forgotten!

With an image open in IrfanView, how can I quickly open its Windows folder
with the file highlighted please?

Okay, I'll bite. How did you open the file in the first place so it
showed up in IrfanView?

If it was, for example, an attachment in an e-mail, all e-mail gets sent
as plain text with attachments encoded into a long string inside a MIME
part within the body of the e-mail. That means the attachment has to be
decoded and saved in some file from where it can be opened by the
handler (Irfanview, in this case). For Outlook, that temp file is under
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKnnnn" where
nnnn is a random number generated during the installation of Outlook.
This also presumes you haven't change the TIF folder for the web browser
under which Outlook creates its temporary secure folder used to store
the decoded attachment into a file so it can be opened. If you are
using some other e-mail client, you will have to find out where it
decodes and saves a temp copy of an attachment that you "open" within
the e-mail client.

If you're looking at some web page image, a copy of it got downloaded
into the cache folder for your unidentified web browser.

Thanks. I opened it from IrfanView Thumbnails View, which I've started
using as it offers better viewing and other features than Windows
Explorer.
In Options-Extensions check Browse Readers/Folders. This will add an
option to your right-click menu for disks and folders.


Thanks, but the option 'Add "Browse with IrfanView" for Drives and Folders
to shell menu' doesn't do what I described.

QUOTE:
"With an image open in IrfanView, how can I quickly open its Windows
folder with the file highlighted please?"

In more detail...

From scenarios like the following, I want to open the FOLDER containing
the viewed file, with that file selected:

1. I have a Windows folder open. It contains many images and video files.
I'm successively opening all of them in IrfanView. Apart from the first
one (which I open with either a d-click or using the r-click Open with
menu), I do this with the right arrow key. (Note that on closing the last
viewed image, the folder still shows the FIRST file opened, which might be
hundreds of thumbnails back from the one required.)

2. I don't have its Windows folder open. I'm using IrfanView Thumbnails to
view or play the file.

In both cases, once I have the image selected in its Explorer folder, I
can then do familiar operations on it, such as drag it into my video
editor where I make DVDs.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

milsabords wrote:

Terry Pinnell:

VanguardLH wrote:


Terry Pinnell wrote:

If I ever knew how to do this then I've forgotten!

With an image open in IrfanView, how can I quickly open its
Windows folder with the file highlighted please?

Okay, I'll bite. How did you open the file in the first place so
it showed up in IrfanView?

Thanks. I opened it from IrfanView Thumbnails View, which I've
started using as it offers better viewing and other features than
Windows Explorer.

In Options-Extensions check Browse Readers/Folders. This will add an
option to your right-click menu for disks and folders.

That's going backwards to what the OP wants. That option adds an
extension to Windows Explorer (explorer.exe). When the user is in
Windows Explorer and right-clicks on a drive or folder, a new content
menu entry will show up with this option enabled for "Browse with
Irfanview". That will open IrfanView Thumbnails viewer starting at
that folder level selected in Windows Explorer.

The OP wants to go in the *opposite* direction. He wants to start in
Irfanview Thumbnails and go BACKWARD by loading Windows Explorer with
it pointing at whatever is the current folder selected in Irfanview
Thumbnails (and also wants the files selected in Irfanview Thumbnails
to already be pre-selected in Windows Explorer). I don't see a method
in Irfanview to do what the OP wants.

The OP wants to go from:

Irfanview Thumbnails - Windows Explorer

Not from:

Windows Explorer - Irfanview Thumbnails

Well, that's what the OP indicated in his reply. His original message
asked how to go from:

Irfanview - Windows Explorer

Guy ] wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:

With an image open in IrfanView, how can I quickly open its
Windows folder with the file highlighted please?



Create Shortcut (.LNK) to Explorer with Target:

%systemroot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,/select,


Use Shortcut (.LNK) as an external editor

Options Properties/Settings... Miscellaneous Set external editor

Did you try it? Using several variations of your suggested string (e.g.
with or without commas, etc), IrfanView consistently stripped that to
C:\Windows\Explore.exe which of course just re-opens the file.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

VanguardLH wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:

If I ever knew how to do this then I've forgotten!

With an image open in IrfanView, how can I quickly open its Windows folder
with the file highlighted please?

Okay, I'll bite. How did you open the file in the first place so it
showed up in IrfanView?

If it was, for example, an attachment in an e-mail, all e-mail gets sent
as plain text with attachments encoded into a long string inside a MIME
part within the body of the e-mail. That means the attachment has to be
decoded and saved in some file from where it can be opened by the
handler (Irfanview, in this case). For Outlook, that temp file is under
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKnnnn" where
nnnn is a random number generated during the installation of Outlook.
This also presumes you haven't change the TIF folder for the web browser
under which Outlook creates its temporary secure folder used to store
the decoded attachment into a file so it can be opened. If you are
using some other e-mail client, you will have to find out where it
decodes and saves a temp copy of an attachment that you "open" within
the e-mail client.

If you're looking at some web page image, a copy of it got downloaded
into the cache folder for your unidentified web browser.

Thanks. I opened it from IrfanView Thumbnails View, which I've started
using as it offers better viewing and other features than Windows
Explorer.

That is an alternative to Windows Explorer. If you go by Ederson's
suggestion, you end up opening whatever is the handler for the filetype
of the image file. You won't end up opening Windows Explorer with the
file pre-selected.

You can right-click on the folder in the tree list on the left but that
just opens the folder and doesn't highlight the file(s) you selected.

If you're just trying to list the files you selected in IrfanView
Thumbnails viewer, select the files and right-click to then save the
list as a .txt file. You can use that .txt file in a batch file or
another program. To see that same list of image files in Irfanview, use
the "Options - Load files list from TXT file" menu in the Irfanview
Thumbnails viewer.

Thanks. You've accurately summarised what I want to do (except for your
final paragraph; no text files or lists involved in my requirement).

See also my reply earlier this morning to milsabords.

I too am coming to the conclusion it can't be done with IrfanView alone.

Such a pity that returning to the Explorer folder after arrow key viewing
doesn't identify your LAST view. And that as well as its 21 other r-click
options, Thumbnail View doesn't include 'Open in Explorer'.

I'll drop an email to Irfan.

Meanwhile I'm trying to write a script with my macro program, Macro
Express Pro. It's not easy, partly because I want it to handle video files
(like AVI) as well as images. But also because after a promising start
point I found of opening the Batch Conversion dialog, I hit a snag, as
shown:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/Irfa...derIssue-1.jpg

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK