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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / ThumbsPlus v9

« on: 2013-06-12 11:32:31 »

I did just see it, so it's not deleted.

But this forum software is not really usable: I very ofthen fail to find something that I once saw and sometimes it just reappears.

-Michae

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Safe to delete from gallerythumbs outside TP GUI?

« on: 2012-11-17 01:08:47 »

The manual sorting of a Gallery might provide some issues. Here I suppose an additional table is used that holds IDs of the thumbnails is the appropriate order (While I understand that a not manually sorted Gallery is not a table of its own, but just done by an additional value in the Thumbnail's data set.

-Michael

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General Discussion / Ver. 7 AND Ver. 9?

« on: 2012-11-03 07:25:51 »

Installing TP9 does not affect the TP7 installation in any way.

If you want to migrate you need to convert you TP7 database. Here, too, the TPt database is just read and not modified.

This did work nicely for me.

-Michael

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / ThumbsPlus 7 (+ older) tech support newsgroup archives

« on: 2012-06-04 13:38:18 »

In fact here:

http://forums.cerious.com/forum/index.php?id=30

recommended Postgres to me. And here:

http://www.cerious.com/databases.shtml

He provided a scrip.

-Michael

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / ThumbsPlus 7 (+ older) tech support newsgroup archives

« on: 2012-06-03 03:42:11 »

Hi Daan,

As, since the newsgroups have been canceled, you are the only senior expert, who answers questions to dummies, I need to bother you :(.

We (www.bschnell.de) are long time rather happy professional users of TP 7 (on a multi-user license).

I fear that in a time frame of some months, our main *.tp4 "Access" database file will reach the 2 GB limit.

My plan has been, to first migrate to the newest TP release and after that migrate to a Postgres database engine (as same has been recommended over MySQL).

I already successfully installed and tested (not with TP) Postgres on my (Linux-) server to prepare the migration.

But of course I first need to thoroughly test TP 9 on our data in the daily work (managing photos in a thousand directories and some hundred hierarchical "galleries", using keywords and annotations, heavily making use of the complex search functionality, ...) , and creating web galleries for our customers - see the website mentioned above). Unfortunately the "tp4 conversion" function of TP 9 does not work for me. So I am stuck. (In fact I am rather eager to use the Python scripting ability of TP9 to create some rather complex automatic jobs, once TP9 really works for us.)

Do you think it would make sense to first migrate the database to Postgres and stick with TP4 ? As I never really used server based databases, I am a bit reluctant with this step (e. g I need to make sure that the automatic backup - using dirvish - )works perfectly).

Please come back here o by mil to mschnell @ (the domain mentioned above).

Thanks a lot,
-Michael

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ThumbsPlus Suggestions / Linux

« on: 2011-06-02 12:34:26 »

A Linux version of TP8 please !

-Michael

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ThumbsPlus Suggestions / paste image area and zoom.

« on: 2011-06-02 12:29:58 »

Of course we would like to see some shortcomings of TP7 removed. Here, an important request is that zooming and panning should be possible when placing an area to be copied (after ctrl-v) onto a picture. This would keep us from using an external picture editor for some standard tasks.

In fact when you view an image and dud a ctrl-V to paste an area onto it, you can drag the area to the desired location and burn it on the picture by pressing Enter.

When zoomend, it's possible to pan the picture by moving the area behind the margins, but when doing other "normal" pan or zoom operations (scroll wheel, ...) the area gets burned down.

It would be great if normal pan and zoom operations would be possible when placing a copy area.

AFAIR there also are issues when copying an area from one picture toward another one that is in another zoom magnification, or when pasting an area bigger than the visible part of the target picture.

-Michael

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / How to keep the database clear of 'Orphans'

« on: 2011-06-02 03:55:10 »

> I'm only in the Win world temporarily, while I revive my Linux system which was destroyed by an errant PSU. When that box is back up, I'll go back to using what I consider to be a near-perfect editing app: Gthumb for Gnome. If this thing had ThumbsPlus' editing capabilities, it would be absolutely perfect.

Similar here. I would love to switch all our PCs to Linux; and maintaining Linux boxes is not hard for me at all, as I already do run some of them.

TP is the only application that is not available in a Linux version, but it's functionality and the huge amount of information stored in it's database is absolutely mission critical here, so we need to run Windows on some boxes.

I do hope for a future Linux version of TP (and of course will help testing it), but obviously before Cerious considering this, TP8 needs to get more perfect.

So I suppose I will switch to TP8 (and a Postgres database running on the Linux server box) some day soon.

-Michael