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I have three different screens in my restaurant. I want to display a different image on each screen.

So I imported three different folders into the software, each containing one different image.

But for reasons I don't understand, sometimes the images are no longer displayed in the same order on the screens.

Sometimes all three screens display the same image for no reason. Or two of the three screens display the same images.

However, I have enabled all of this in the settings :

File Options > Show files sequentially > No sort

File options > Save files between sessions

Images > Image display time > 999999 hours

Can you help me ?

Thank you in advance.

Hello,
gPhotoShow Pro is designed to handle thousands of images; your use case is very specific. The problem is that with only 3 images, the slideshow restarts frequently, but preloading images can cause the problem you're experiencing.
Un-tick the option to save files lists between sessions; this way, the display sequence will always be the same each time you start gPhotoShow

Hello, thank you for your reply.

I think you should consider adding a feature to display a single image on a screen without "bugs". Your software could then replace many paid programs for displaying images in restaurants, fast food outlets, company reception areas, etc.

I thought about this : If I put the same image 500 times in folder 1, 500 times in folder 2, and 500 times in folder 3, and disable all the slideshow animations, will it work ?

There is no need for a specific option for your use case, you just need to use the appropriate settings.
You can do in 2 ways. #1 works with 1 image. #2 works with any number of images.

1) Un-tick the option to save files list. In this way every time the program starts always display different files on each monitor:
2) Configure the monitor ID for each directory. In this way you can also have more than one image for each monitor.

If I choose the first method, do I also need to keep the settings I had already enabled?

File Options > Show files sequentially > No sort
Images > Image display time > 999999 hours

Or do I just disable only “save files lists between sessions” ?

It depends.
"No sort" means the files are displayed without any specific order. The order depends on how the files are stored on disk. You can also set alphabetical or random sorting.
You can set the display time to whatever you want, but with only one image per directory, it must be long enough so that the image doesn't change until the PC is shut down or restarted.

Unfortunately, I still have the same problem. Sometimes, I get the same image appearing on all three screens.

However, the PC does not restart; it is on 24 hours a day.

so the software should not restart...

Probably the display time 999999 is too long, try something more reasonable like 168 hours (=a week). Or set the monitor ID for each folder

I'm sorry, but I can't figure out how to assign a monitor ID for each folder...

Where can I find it in the menu ?

Take a look at the screen shot in one of my previous posts, it's the Images page, you have 0 under the Mon column, click once to highlight the line then click on that 0 and enter the monitor ID (1,2,3,....)