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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / moving a folder

« on: 2013-07-28 12:14:36 »

First be sure that "Allow folder operations" is On under Options | Preferences | General.

Then, to move a folder, go to the Tree panel and either drag it to its desired location, or right-click on its name, select Move Folder and browse to where you want to have it.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / TP9 3928: Can't thumbnail multiple video files

« on: 2013-07-27 17:21:35 »

System: XP Pro sp3, TP9 build 3928

I have several video filetypes (flv, mp4, webm) defined as equivalent to MPG, which in turn is loaded using Internal (i.e. through directshow, which on my system uses [link=http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/]FFDSHOW Tryouts[/link] to decode them). I can thumbnail them just fine on a one-by-one basis and the viewer shows them correctly too.

However, when I select multiple video files and press F3, ThumbsPlus doesn't thumbnail them but instead assigns a generic icon to them (of the videoplayer that these filetypes are associated with in Windows). The same thing happens when I use Thumbnail | Scan Folder or Scan Tree from the menu.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / TP9 3928: Folder refresh disables 'Include Child Folders'

« on: 2013-07-27 17:03:59 »

When you use the 'Include Child Folders' option to view not just the contents of the current folder but also those of its subfolders, and you refresh the folder or do something that causes ThumbsPlus to refresh it (e.g. Remove Orphans), then the 'Include Child Folders' option is turned off.

I have a few folders that are so large that 'watch changes in folder' no longer works reliably there. So, I refresh it manually very regularly, and it's a bit of a pain that I have to remember to re-enable 'Include Child Folders' everytime.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / TP9 3928: External programs only work with one database

« on: 2013-07-27 16:08:50 »

When you use multiple databases, there's a problem with external programs.

External program definitions for menus and toolbars are stored in Thumbs9.Config, but the actual program definitions are stored in the database.

Consequently, when you load a different database, TP9 still shows these external programs in the menu and in your toolbar, but they do not work.

I can think of multiple workarounds, such as not loading menu and toolbar entries for external programs if no matching definitions exist in the database, but it would be nice if TP9 would offer (once) to copy the external programs to the other database when you create or load a new database.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / TP9 3928: license problem when running multiple instances

« on: 2013-07-27 15:59:35 »

System: XP Pro sp3, TP9 build 3928 w/ 5-user home network license

When I use TP9 and launch a second copy, then exit that 2nd instance a bit later, the original instance will pop up an error <8041> saying that my session is not active in the database for multiuser license validation, and the program exits.

This doesn't happen until I have exited the 2nd instance of TP, so, what I think happens is that TP terminates all sessions of the current user instead of just the one that he's closing, and as a result, any other running instances are logged out too.

This is not specific to build 3928, I've seen it in prior TP9 releases too.

I often run multiple instances so I can work on multiple folders at the same time.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Custom Menus

« on: 2013-07-13 18:01:28 »

> When trimming to proportion, the masked area can be flipped between portrait and landscape by right-clicking on it.  Is there a keyboard shortcut that does the same thing?

I don't think there is! (but I would be happy to learn that I'm wrong :)

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Custom Menus

« on: 2013-07-13 16:50:30 »

Right-click on the new menu entry and choose Customize. A window opens that you can just ignore (but leave on screen). Right-click on the menu item again, and a context menu appears from which you can edit its name.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Internal Video Player TP9-3928

« on: 2013-07-10 17:54:35 »

Laura: if you haven't already, you should give FFDShow Tryout a try. It allows you to play almost any conceivable multimedia file through the Directshow interface. I'm watching .webm, .flv and .mp4 files without problems in TP7 and TP9 and I never have to fiddle with codecs again.

http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Tree in Desktop>Documents Pictures v C\Users\MyName\Pictures

« on: 2013-07-10 17:45:53 »

Or, maybe some of those folders have the Hidden or System attribute and TP9 is not configured to show those?

OncleJean, please see Options | Preferences | Disks & Folders again, there are some options that may affect how your Pictures folder (and others) are displayed. I think you should be able to get it to work just like TP7.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Tree in Desktop>Documents Pictures v C\Users\MyName\Pictures

« on: 2013-07-08 11:13:56 »

Go to Options | Preferences | Tab:Startup

Under 'Initial Folder', enter the specific folder that you want TP to start in.


(you may also want to look at Options | Preferences | Disks & Folders, where you can enable or disable tree components like Desktop and Documents)

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / 3928 won't import .txt to MySQL

« on: 2013-06-27 16:45:13 »

Could it be that the exported file had any multi-line annotations in it? I have a vague recollection that those would cause multiple lines to be exported also, breaking the one-record-per-line format.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Thumbnail Orientation 3928

« on: 2013-06-24 09:43:10 »

> I select image(s) in the list and click the icon.
>
> In Tp7 they are passed in the right orientation, in Tp9 not.

I don't see how there could be any such difference. All that TP does, is call that program and pass the image file as a parameter. It doesn't do anything to the file before it launches the external program.

> I found, that the commandline for the external programms are not compatibel with WINDOWS.

Good find! Has this bug been reported to Cerious?

Could it be that your external program is behaving differently because of this? It is after all receiving different command line parameters. I can't think of a different explanation..

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Thumbnail Orientation 3928

« on: 2013-06-24 07:43:39 »

> Well, I don't know the background, but I know that TP7 does exactly what I want.
>
> Turning the image and pass it to the external programms with the changed Orientation and without touching the original file.

Please be specific. How exactly do you turn the image?

I can think of many different ways, and they all work fine in TP9 as far as I know. So please explain what you do in TP7 so that I can try to reproduce the problem.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Thumbnail Orientation 3928

« on: 2013-06-23 07:39:03 »

Can you be more specific? How do you invoke that external program and how do you transfer the image to it?

If you have made a button for an external program and you click it to run that program with the file under the cursor, or when you open the file in external edit mode (Shift-Enter), then it is up to that program to recognize the file's EXIF Orientation tag.

When you edit a JPG in TP and save it, TP will always reset its orientation to Top-Left, so that every other program will load it the same way that you had it on your screen while editing.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / File date not changed when file modified

« on: 2013-06-23 07:26:04 »

Good for you. A still better solution, I think, would be to make the default value dependent on the setting for "Retain original file date/time when quick process turning or editing IPTC".