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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Too Many Users
« on: 2018-08-13 08:50:42 »
When I open a second database, I get an error message saying I have too many users and the database will not open.  This has happened three times now and I have had to recreate the database by re-scanning.  Fortunately this is a small database with only a few thousand pictures in it, so it does not take too long, but it is very frustrating and if it happens to my main database it will be painful.

I have only one computer and there have been no crashes.

What is happening?

THanks
Brad

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Thank you very much.  The Privacy option is the perfect answer for me.

Finally, with regard to the Backspace key and your folder history: See Options | Preferences | Privacy, where you can stop TP from saving folder history between sessions.

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I have figured out that the key to this particular question is in the thumbs10.ini file under the [FolderHistory] heading.

Perhaps a better question would be:  Is it possible to have a different thumbs10.ini for different databases?

Thanks
Brad

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I have separated my photos into two Databases.  The photos live on separate drives and exist for separate reasons.

If I use the Backspace key to move back through folders, it does not respect the separation between Databases, and will jump to a folder in the other Database and scan in all the images.

Is there a way to limit where a particular Database will look for images?

Is there a way to automatically delete the list the Backspace key works from when exiting the program.

Is there a way to have a different Backspace list for different Databases?

A similar problem exists for the dropdown Keyword list that you get to with a right-click-slide-and-hover.

Is it possible to have two copies of Thumbsplus in separate directories so that I could start the one I want and never get any cross pollination between the two Databases.

Thanks
Brad

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Cleaning up drop down lists
« on: 2016-12-17 21:42:58 »
Perfect!

Thank You

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Cleaning up drop down lists
« on: 2016-12-15 08:19:01 »
Is there a way to clean up the drop down lists when opening a different data base.

Thanks
Brad

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Database size and Cloud Drives
« on: 2016-01-16 12:22:28 »
This is an ongoing effort that is slowed down a lot by having the cloud back up going on.  Before I start again, I will turn off the wireless.

Evidently there was some event on January 6, 2012 that impacted a large number of my photos.  For all that have this as a file date, the Metadata will not read or change.  When I look at properties in TP the number three tab (info) is missing.  TP will not modify the Metadata, but it will delete it and after that, everything is fine.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Database size and Cloud Drives
« on: 2016-01-15 08:29:54 »
This process has worked pretty well through a few thousand pictures, but I am starting to get lots of this error:

<5774> 011208-002.jpg: Unable to update XMP, error #000000ce:     Outrageous IFD count
<5774> 011208-003.jpg: Unable to update XMP, error #000000ce:     Outrageous IFD count
<5774> 011223-001.jpg: Unable to update XMP, error #000000ce:     Outrageous IFD count


If I delete all metadata from the offending files, everything works fine, but with some lost information.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Database size and Cloud Drives
« on: 2016-01-14 16:00:27 »
This is fantastic info thank you so much.  Metadata has always been a mystery to me.

How would I create a saved set of commands that would:

Make Selected (adds folder names to the keywords)
Saves the keywords into Metadata
Remove Selected keyword (remove one keyword that happens to be "Scan Capture")



This is the process I will be using as a final step when I am done processing new pictures and have renamed them and moved them to their permanent homes in the photo library.  The first and third steps above have been manual processes for the past 15 years.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Database size and Cloud Drives
« on: 2016-01-13 21:03:08 »
This is great info on how to save the keywords.

As for cloud stuff,  I am not a good source as I am new at this.  I can see my stuff from my mobile devices and from my phone it does have to load from online.  From my PC, there is a local copy on my hard drive and things work just as they did before the cloud, except that anything I change gets updated on the cloud so I have a constant rolling back up.  When I am just adding a few pictures, I don't notice the background traffic to the cloud, but when I exit from Thumbsplus after making a change, all of my bandwidth is sucked up by the copy being made to my 1.3G database.  It would really suck if I was camping and going through my phone's data plan.  So I keep my database off the cloud, which means I don't have a semi-live backup.

That is why I am excited about getting the keywords into the jpegs.  It means that I will be able to recover from losing a database that I have been building since Windows 95.  I might lose my User Fields but I have made only limited use of them.  I lost my Galleries in the conversion from TP7 to TP8 several years ago.

I will try to put keywords into jpegs in the morning.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Database size and Cloud Drives
« on: 2016-01-13 17:54:49 »
Tell me more about IPTC and keywords.  I have been looking for a way to do this. I need to save about 57,000 jpgs with keywords.

As for working off the cloud, it seems to work well as long as I keep the data base on the C: drive.  Opening the pictures (from my PC) does not generate network traffic unless I make a change to the file.

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Can an existing database be reconstructed with thumbnails as separate files?

Does anyone have experience with using the program in this manner.  Are their limitations on performance or options or anything else.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Database size and Cloud Drives
« on: 2016-01-13 13:38:02 »
Can you create a new database from an old one?  I have 15 years worth of keywords I can't lose.

Is there a reason to think having separated thumbs may not work as well as having them in the database?

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Database size and Cloud Drives
« on: 2016-01-12 08:45:58 »
The size of the database has always been a issue when doing backups.  Mine is 1.3G.  I have moved my photos to a cloud drive, which seems to be working so far, but having to move 1.3G between my drive and the cloud every time I make a change is impractical as it eats up all my bandwidth for too long and sort of wipes out my dataplan when I am connecting through my phone.  Is there a way to separate the thumbnails from the database?
Is there a way to delete or diminish thumbnails for photos that have not been viewed in 60 days?
Thanks

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Assigning TP keywords to Exif
« on: 2014-03-13 08:35:17 »
I would also like to know the answer to this question.

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