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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.
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.
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.
>
> 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-
> > 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:
[*] 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.
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:
[*] 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])
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.
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.
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.
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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Safe to delete from gallerythumbs outside TP GUI?
« on: 2012-11-12 23:18:30 »
> The gallery system looks like it might be more complicated than the ones I mention above, and I'm not sure if that's safe or if it might disturb some other area in TP's internal management.
I think only the developers (who don't seem to visit here often) can provide you with a definitive answer to that question, but I wouldn't expect any problems because gallery entries, as I understand them, are basically just pointers to the real file's thumbnail record.
I'm only aware of one feature that finds copies of images in galleries (i.e. works the other way around), and that's when you view the properties [Alt+Enter] of a regular thumbnail and look in the Galleries tab. I think that TP just performs a quick, temporary search at that point to find that particular file in any galleries, but theoratically, it might be keeping track of a thumbnail's gallery entries elsewhere in a table, and in that case, blindly deleting gallery records without updating that other table might indeed break something. If I were in your shoes, I think I'd just create a test database and check what happens in the database when you create (and later delete, through SQL) your first gallery and gallery entry, and what happens in the corresponding file's Properties dialog after you have deleted it. Afterwards, you could also see if the built-in Database | Compact and Repair functions show any hiccups.
I think only the developers (who don't seem to visit here often) can provide you with a definitive answer to that question, but I wouldn't expect any problems because gallery entries, as I understand them, are basically just pointers to the real file's thumbnail record.
I'm only aware of one feature that finds copies of images in galleries (i.e. works the other way around), and that's when you view the properties [Alt+Enter] of a regular thumbnail and look in the Galleries tab. I think that TP just performs a quick, temporary search at that point to find that particular file in any galleries, but theoratically, it might be keeping track of a thumbnail's gallery entries elsewhere in a table, and in that case, blindly deleting gallery records without updating that other table might indeed break something. If I were in your shoes, I think I'd just create a test database and check what happens in the database when you create (and later delete, through SQL) your first gallery and gallery entry, and what happens in the corresponding file's Properties dialog after you have deleted it. Afterwards, you could also see if the built-in Database | Compact and Repair functions show any hiccups.
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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Twain devices
« on: 2012-09-26 19:34:57 »
My pleasure! I recently had both a 5 year old all-in-one and an 18(!) years old laserjet die on me, and to avoid any such problems I've simply bought second-hand machines of exactly the same type (but in better, as-new condition) to replace them.
So, instead of looking for new equipment, uninstalling old drivers, diddling with plug-and-pray, configuring the new machines and then getting to know them, etc, all I had to do was dump the old printers and put the 'new' ones in their place. I saved money, lots of time and probably quite some frustration, so I'm still quite happy about that solution.. :-)
So, instead of looking for new equipment, uninstalling old drivers, diddling with plug-and-pray, configuring the new machines and then getting to know them, etc, all I had to do was dump the old printers and put the 'new' ones in their place. I saved money, lots of time and probably quite some frustration, so I'm still quite happy about that solution.. :-)
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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Twain devices
« on: 2012-09-26 18:00:14 »
> Does anyone know how to activate again a Twain source (scanner of HP C6380 All-in-One) that has gone missing from the T+ "Image aquire" menu (v7/sp2)?
There should be a folder named Twain_32 in your Windows folder. Inside it are .DS ('data source') files for your twain devices. The one for your HP is probably missing.
It should be part of the HP driver package for your all-in-one; locate the file, copy it to the twain_32 folder, reboot, turn the all-in-one on and it should work.
p.s. Vuescan has its own drivers.
There should be a folder named Twain_32 in your Windows folder. Inside it are .DS ('data source') files for your twain devices. The one for your HP is probably missing.
It should be part of the HP driver package for your all-in-one; locate the file, copy it to the twain_32 folder, reboot, turn the all-in-one on and it should work.
p.s. Vuescan has its own drivers.