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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Database error: SQL Connect Error; Windows 8.1 conflict?

« on: 2014-02-23 13:29:28 »

> Looking at the "ThumbPlus is starting" message box, I see "Thumbs.tpdb8:Driver={Microsoft Access Driver(*.mdb)}" -- I don't have Access installed, so that's the issue?

No, as far as I know that driver is part of a standard Windows configuration. And I'd thought that if it were missing, the distribution that PeteW1959 suggested earlier would solve that. But yes, I think that missing Access driver is the problem.

Here's another driver pack that you could give a try:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23734

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Database error: SQL Connect Error; Windows 8.1 conflict?

« on: 2014-02-20 22:35:34 »

Hi Merchant,

It looks to me like you don't have the 32-bit MS Access and SQLite3 drivers installed. However, you already tried installing that Access redistributable that PeteW1959 found, and that didn't work, and frankly I can't think of any other suggestions for now.. hopefully Phillip will look into this for the next build.

There are more programs that have similar or the same problem, see e.g. these discussions:

  http://www.interfaceware.com/manual/odbc_64.html
  http://kb.eset-la.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN3101

If you're not ready to give up just yet, there's an installer for SQLite here:
  http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/

I'll let you know if I think of anything else.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Extract Bitmap - where is it in v9?

« on: 2014-02-20 17:39:18 »

I don't know if it's still there, but did you try pressing Shift-B in the viewer? That used to be the shortcut. Or, create a batch process (it's still there under Batch Steps | Add | Metafile). I also looked briefly through the commands available from the Customize dialog (in hopes that you could create a button for it) but I didn't find it there.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Yes, seems useful to me. (no text)

« on: 2014-02-20 05:20:52 »

n/t

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Database error: SQL Connect Error; Windows 8.1 conflict?

« on: 2014-02-20 02:14:54 »

I can't really help you (by lack of a Win 8.1 64b system) but to me it looks like the Windows ODBC drivers that ThumbsPlus requires haven't been properly installed or configured.

You should be able to run "%SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe" from Start | Run to get to Windows' ODBC driver setup. It has a tab called Tracing where you can turn on a trace log that shows the communication between applications and the database drivers. When you've turned it on, you can run TP9, exit it, and hopefully the log file will provide further clues as to what went wrong (note that TP9 may run slower than usual when logging is on. Don't forget to turn the logging off afterwards).

TP itself has a diagnostic startup option too that you can access from Windows' Start | Programs menu (look under ThumbsPlus | Utilities).

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Cannot update build 3934 because ???

« on: 2014-02-18 19:28:33 »

Have you tried a full uninstall followed by a full install?

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / v9 newbe questions.

« on: 2014-02-18 05:32:07 »

> 1. With v7 each directory that had a subdirectory had a + sign in the location window. Now with v9 only the directory I happen to be sitting in shows the + sign.

You're probalby viewing a network drive.  Network folders (eg on a NAS drive) don't show whether they are expandable because pre-reading the whole tree might take ages.

> To navigate to a different subdirectory elsewhere on the drive I have to first select the parent directory, kill TP9, and restart it.

That's just weird. But instead of restarting TP9, try pressing Ctrl-F5 (refresh tree) if this happens again.

> 2. Each parent directory has in it all thumbnails for all subdirectories under it.  This causes TP9 to take forever to start. Clearly I do not want this, I want the thumbnails to only be displayed in the directory or subdirectory I choose.

Well, you shouldn't have turned that option on then :-)

To turn it back off, Go to Options | Preferences | Thumbnail View and unmark "always show child folders".

If you prefer version 7, you can simply re-install it (in a different folder than v9). There's no need to remove either version if you also want to use the other.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Nikon raw files

« on: 2014-02-11 17:42:59 »

Sounds like a white balance problem. See Options | Digicam or Options | DCRaw (depending on which you use to load NEF files) to find the relevant setting. The Digicam settings may also offer an option of using Nikon libraries to read the raw files.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Metadata

« on: 2014-02-09 20:09:22 »

> Hmm at the bottom of the "options" menu I have "external programs" an the list is empty.
>
> -Michael

I'm using build 3928 and below 'external program' I have these entries:

[*]GhostScript PS/EPS/PDF
[*]Digicam plug-in
[*]DCRaw plug-in
[/list]

They allow you to set options for each of these plug-ins.

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General Discussion / Matching colors on monitors

« on: 2014-02-09 15:48:22 »

Paul,

Sorry for the late reply. I'd recommend this: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Lumia 1020 dng

« on: 2014-02-09 15:24:04 »

> I'm using T+9 v. 3928 with latest digicam. My Lumia 1020 now allows raw dng photo output much to my relief. However, my favorite (T+ since c. 1990) browser's thumbnail maker doesn't read them properly, like missing blue-yellow output, reading only magenta-green. Double clicking on thumb, however, will show proper individual image in the display.

See the General tab of either Options | Digicam or Options | DCRaw. To make thumbnails, the plugin that loads DNG files can either use the actual raw data or the preview JPG that's embedded in the DNG. It sounds like it's doing the latter. You can change that behavior through the options screen.

See the DNG filetype definitions (rightclick on a DNG file, pick Configure File Type) to see which of these plugins is being used.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Metadata

« on: 2014-02-09 13:32:22 »

> I don't find this menu in TP9 and I don't know if TP9 uses the same plugins as TP7.

It does and the plug-in options are at the bottom under Options in the menu (if the plugins are installed).

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Metadata

« on: 2014-02-09 13:30:36 »

You must have Digicam installed in order to load NEF files and their metadata.

When you right-click on a NEF file and pick "Configure file type",  the value for Load Using should be Cerious Plug-in, with to its right either plug_digicam.tpp or plug_digiraw.tpp (these represent two different loading methods, you can try both. Metadata is read when the thumbnail is made. To re-create a thumbnail after you have changed the loading method, select it and press Shift-Del to remove the existing thumbnail record, then press F3 to have it re-made).

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Database error: SQL Connect Error: Cannot use for months now

« on: 2014-02-06 19:13:55 »

Great find! This is what i'd try too.

Yes, he needs the 32-bit version, and I think it would be a good idea to reboot prior to running the installer.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Database error: SQL Connect Error: Cannot use for months now

« on: 2014-02-06 11:23:08 »

> I suppose I need to install MySQL,

No. Your database is a regular Access-type database and the SQL error messages that you see have nothing to do with MySQL.

Have you tried to install and run TP with full Administrator rights?

If that doesn't help, I think something in Windows' ODBC database system is broken on your system. Unfortunately I don't know how to diagnose and fix that on a 64-bit Windows 8.1 system. One thing that used to fix it is doing a full (non-custom) installation of MS Office if you happen to have that.