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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Thumbnail Orientation 3928

« on: 2013-06-21 12:59:56 »

Karsten, you still haven't made it clear what the problem is.

You wrote:

"Thumnail orientation has no effect on Slideshow, Editwindow and to external programs, only in thumbnaillist."

Do you mean:

1) ..that the viewer ignores the EXIF orientation of the image?

or:

2) ..that you have rotated the thumbnail of an image, and the viewer does not adjust the orientation of the displayed image to this rotation?

Both work fine for me in TP9.

For 1., you have to set Options | Preferences | Metadata | Rotate based on XMP/EXIF orientation

For 2., you have to set Options | Viewing | Other | Use database thumbnail orientation when displaying images


Note: If you are working with raw camera files, and you want them to be converted to the proper orientation, you should also look in the Digicam or DCRaw plug-in options.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Multi Image Tif Batch Processing

« on: 2013-06-17 11:30:08 »

> Any help would be appreciated, does this software process multi image Tifs in batch mode?

I don't think so.. in format conversions (etc) it only processes the first page. The command that one would use to separate the pages beforehand, "Split pages", is not available in batch commands (and a command to recombine those pages into a single multi-page file doesn't exist in TP).

Maybe one of the products offered by www.tiff-tools.com could help you with this task.

Edited to add:
Apparently the open-source ImageMagick utility can identify TIFF compression schemes when you use its "identify -verbose" command line option -- but I don't know if it will report on individual pages within a TIFF. See [link=http://www.imagemagick.org]www.imagemagick.org[/link].

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Thumbnail Orientation 3928

« on: 2013-06-15 09:00:29 »

Have you checked your setting for Options | Viewing | Other | Use database thumbnail orientation when displaying images?

Or, if you are not refering to the thumbnail orientation but rather to the image's internal EXIF orientation: have you checked your settings under Options | Preferences | Metadata Rotate based on XMP/EXIF orientation?

(There are additional rotation options in the raw plug-in settings, but those apply only to raw images).

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Multimonitor switching 3928

« on: 2013-06-15 08:48:53 »

Are you running a monitor or desktop management tool? Those usually undo or override whatever you have set in other programs.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Build 3928 - now I cannot see network drives

« on: 2013-06-14 20:46:06 »

Did you happen to check your settings (Options | Preferences | Disks and Folders) when the new version didn't show network drives? I'm curious if it was just a new or changed setting or an actual functionality problem.

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

« on: 2013-06-08 00:22:58 »

> I would like to do that.  I had hoped that this Forum would be a way to report such a problem to his attention, but I guess not.

No, [link=http://forums.cerious.com/forum/index.php?mode=user&show_user=1]Phillip's[/link] last visit here was in January and his last message dates back to May 2011.. I wish it were different. Back in the newsgroup days he often had interesting information to share and betatest discussions were very productive.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / TP9 3927 broke usage--startup hangs at Twain Initialized

« on: 2013-06-03 02:25:53 »

You could try running it from the command line with the -notwain or -safe command line parameter (but it might not be worth the trouble if you use TP to scan images/docs, because that part of the program would be disabled).

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

« on: 2013-06-02 21:31:30 »

> .. I am troubled that [..] resulted in your taking on telling me to change the way my laptop synchronization and backup scripts operate.

Nonsense! I simply responded to your comment:

> I can't imagine how to safely use the archive bit for this without interfering with a backup system which also used the archive bit.

If you had no use for my factually correct answer to begin with, maybe you shouldn't have brought it up..

 > And you still have not answered my original question, which was how to make "Set to current date/time" be my default each time I start Thumbs Plus.

There is no such option that I know of and I have explained why the default is not to change the timestamp. If you still think that's wrong, you'll have to take that up with Phillip.

For now, the only alternative method that I can think of to enter comments AND update the timestamp in v9 is to set the "Copy Description/Caption to image comment" option in Opt | Pref | Meta as discussed earlier, and then to enter your comments through the Metadata | Description | Comments field in the Metadata panel. However, if the files already have any comments, the autocopy function will not replace those but instead append your new comment to them.

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

« on: 2013-06-01 15:25:34 »

> > I believe that's what XCOPY /A is for. It reads the archive bit to see which files need backing up, but doesn't reset it, so that another program can use the archive bit too.
>
> And of course that would work only the archive bit indicated which files had modified comments since the last XCOPY, which would require that the last XCOPY had had cleared it.

No. You would sync your files between PC and notebook using XCOPY, which would leave the archive bits alone, and then run the backup software, which would reset them.

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

« on: 2013-06-01 03:44:12 »

Hi Rich,

> > If it should happen again: Turn on the setting that copies image comments into database annotations, re-thumbnail the files, and sort them on annotation (for this, annotations must be made visible in the thumbnail view) to figure out more quickly which files have a comment.
>
> Two problems with this approach:
> (1) These commented files were spread across dozens of folders, not all in one.

Well, instead of sorting you could also perform a search (tn.[annotation] > '') to find the images that have annotations. Or, if they are subfolders of the same parent folder, use "show child folders" and sort them.

> (2) It destroys the file names the camera had assigned.

It shouldn't affect the filenames at all.

> Is there any chance of making it's stickiness be durable across a quit and restart?

I can't answer that, but I doubt it.
 
> I synchronize my laptop and desktop via file modification dates via a batch script that uses:
>
>   xcopy source target /D
>
> I can't imagine how to safely use the archive bit for this without interfering with a backup system which also used the archive bit.

I believe that's what XCOPY /A is for. It reads the archive bit to see which files need backing up, but doesn't reset it, so that another program can use the archive bit too.

Best,

-Daan-

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

« on: 2013-05-31 18:45:06 »

> I frequently use the Thumbs Plus "Modify File Info" command (Ctrl-Shift-Q) to add comments (captions) to my JPEG photographs.  Unfortunately by default this command preserves the File Modification date & time unchanged.

Most users like to preserve the original timestamp that their camera assigned to the file because it allows them to view the files in chronological order. Photos are different from other files in that respect.

> Today I had to go through a few thousand pictures by hand to identify which ones I had commented

If it should happen again: Turn on the setting that copies image comments into database annotations, re-thumbnail the files, and sort them on annotation (for this, annotations must be made visible in the thumbnail view) to figure out more quickly which files have a comment.

> [..] and then explicitly change their modification times, in order to get them to properly get backed up as should have happened automatically.

Well, ThumbsPlus does offer you the option of updating the timestamp -you just have to remember using it- and it does properly update a file's archive bit when it modifies it (regardless of whether the timestamp is updated), so that should accomodate most backup strategies.

BTW, the Modify File Info dialog that you used deals with oldfashioned image comments from before IPTC and EXIF were introduced:

[*] GIF: Version 89a comment field
[*] JPEG: COM marker field(s)
[*] TIFF: Description tag
[*] PNG: Text fields
[/list]

I haven't tried, but I'm not sure if TP also fills the relevant IPTC (caption) and EXIF (user comment) fields, which other programs or other uses of the images may require. If that's an issue, it may be better to edit one of those fields instead, and use the relevant settings in Options | Prefs | Metadata to automatically copy the new contents into the comment field too.

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ThumbsPlus Suggestions / ThumbsPlus use of GPUs on graphics boards

« on: 2013-01-16 17:21:35 »

> The jpg files from my camera run between 8 and 17 meg.

Chances are that the built-in virtual memory manager is kicking in with those files, slowing down the rendering speed. If you haven't tried already, I'd recommend that you turn it off to see how much of a difference that makes (see [msg=17]If larger images load slowly..[/msg])

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / TP& Preferences for a hot-rod

« on: 2013-01-09 12:54:29 »

> Interesting thought about the Preview Tab.  I never use it, but your thought makes me wonder if there is an INI setting to turn it off and if there might not be a performance increase with it off.  Any thoughts on that?

I don't think it would make much of a difference if there were such an option (but there isn't in TP7 afaik). The responsiveness of the cursor in the thumbnail panel doesn't seem to be affected much by the process of creating and displaying previews. Even so, you could set that value to 0 to force TP to show the file's thumbnail instead of a larger sized preview image.

Where performance is concerned, you could also have a look at this message:
http://forums.cerious.com/forum/index.php?mode=entry&id=14. It explains two methods that might help you save a lot of time culling, keywording, categorizing (etc) your images.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / TP& Preferences for a hot-rod

« on: 2013-01-09 09:47:34 »

The default settings should work just fine, but you could probably increase the maximum filesize to load in the preview tab, as well as the Undo buffer size.

To further increase performance, I'd disable ThumbsPlus' built-in virtual memory manager. See http://forums.cerious.com/forum/index.php?mode=entry&id=17

ThumbsPlus would generally benefit most from the SSD drive if Windows' registry and temp files are on it, and to a lesser extent Windows itself. ThumbsPlus also interacts a lot with its database and its own ini file.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Double Linked Datasbase Thumbnails

« on: 2012-11-20 22:17:04 »

Options | Preferences | Thumbnail View: "Always show child folders" is probably on.