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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / How to combine metadata resulting from multiple (network NAS) navigation paths?
« on: 2020-07-03 14:17:28 »
I have been a ThumbsPlus user and promoter for many years. The database and files resided locally on my PC, which changed OS and hardware several times. All seemed to be fine. I have close to 200K thumbnails.
Last year, I changed my home setup so pretty much all my files are on a NAS. Other than an occasionally performance blip, all seemed well.
A couple of months ago, I converted OS again (Win7 to Win10). I actually built a clean WIN10 system, and reinstalled applications. I had some puzzles with ThumbsPlus and ended up installing/uninstalling several times trying different things. It finally seemed OK.
It wasn’t, and I think it goes back to the NAS conversion a year ago.
It seems that ThumbsPlus things I use a lot – galleries, keywords, annotation – are connected to how I happen to be navigating to the image. I have 3 choices which until now I paid no attention to:
• A path name starting with \\fieldcloud5\nasonly1\OURPICS...
• A path name starting with \\192.168.1.90\nasonly1\OURPICS...
• A path name starting with N:\OURPICS… (“N” is a mapped drive referring to the NAS location)
It appears from spot checking through the galleries, that most thumbnails there happen use the \\fieldcloud5....path name.
SO:
• Which of those methods of navigation is the best? I thought that the mapped drive is best, since I can keep it the same and change NAS locations and configurations. But the gallery observation seems to contradict this.
• Does the answer to this depend on how I originally navigate to the database location? i.e. are some of these relative to that? BTW, the database file name path displayed is of the \\fieldcloud5.... Navigation choice
• And the biggie – how can I best merge – or at least identify – annotations, keywords and gallery membership information that I using something other than this single, “best”? Specifically:
o Assuming that \\fieldcloud5\naslonly1\OURPICS.... Is the best navigation choice, and I should always use that:
How do I get the annotations, keywords and gallery membership information that exists only in thumbnails with other paths into those in the preferred path?
Whew.
I am pretty decent with MS Access and have other reasons to learn Python if those are part of the solution.
Last year, I changed my home setup so pretty much all my files are on a NAS. Other than an occasionally performance blip, all seemed well.
A couple of months ago, I converted OS again (Win7 to Win10). I actually built a clean WIN10 system, and reinstalled applications. I had some puzzles with ThumbsPlus and ended up installing/uninstalling several times trying different things. It finally seemed OK.
It wasn’t, and I think it goes back to the NAS conversion a year ago.
It seems that ThumbsPlus things I use a lot – galleries, keywords, annotation – are connected to how I happen to be navigating to the image. I have 3 choices which until now I paid no attention to:
• A path name starting with \\fieldcloud5\nasonly1\OURPICS...
• A path name starting with \\192.168.1.90\nasonly1\OURPICS...
• A path name starting with N:\OURPICS… (“N” is a mapped drive referring to the NAS location)
It appears from spot checking through the galleries, that most thumbnails there happen use the \\fieldcloud5....path name.
SO:
• Which of those methods of navigation is the best? I thought that the mapped drive is best, since I can keep it the same and change NAS locations and configurations. But the gallery observation seems to contradict this.
• Does the answer to this depend on how I originally navigate to the database location? i.e. are some of these relative to that? BTW, the database file name path displayed is of the \\fieldcloud5.... Navigation choice
• And the biggie – how can I best merge – or at least identify – annotations, keywords and gallery membership information that I using something other than this single, “best”? Specifically:
o Assuming that \\fieldcloud5\naslonly1\OURPICS.... Is the best navigation choice, and I should always use that:
How do I get the annotations, keywords and gallery membership information that exists only in thumbnails with other paths into those in the preferred path?
Whew.
I am pretty decent with MS Access and have other reasons to learn Python if those are part of the solution.