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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: Network Devices dont appear in "Windows Network"

« on: 2022-01-11 08:12:42 »

But does the network show in the tree panel at all? If not, see Options | Preferences | Disks & Folders | Turn off "Do not show network branch".

If the network does show, but not any shared drives or devices within it, go to the same dialog and try tagging the option "Public Locations" in the lower right corner.

If that still doesn't help, could it be that you're running ThumbsPlus from an account that has no access to those locations?

As a work around, have you tried to map those locations to drive letters?

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: Fuji Raw not supported?

« on: 2022-01-01 18:53:13 »

I don't know if it is or isn't possible, but from your report here I guess it isn't. The only possible solution that I can think of is this: try setting the plugins to use the embedded JPG (instead of the raw data) to create a thumbnail. See under Options | Digicam and Options | DCRAW in the main menu.

The DCRAW raw development code that both plugins are based on, is no longer being maintained. So, I don't see how ThumbsPlus will be able to decode new raw formats from new cameras unless Cerious switches to a different raw library.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: Windows Explorer thumbnails disappear

« on: 2021-12-06 22:28:19 »

Maybe the folder was refreshed when ThumbPlus read it, and that triggered it..?  Anyway, good that you found the problem and I hope the Dropbox people will fix it!

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: Windows Explorer thumbnails disappear

« on: 2021-12-06 13:14:47 »

Explorer stores its thumbnail cache for each folder in a file named thumbs.db. 

ThumbsPlus ignores those files. I can't think of any way that it might interfere with the Explorer thumbnails on your system.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: Problems with batch video thumbnails

« on: 2021-12-05 15:48:22 »

Somehow, there is a difference in the thumbnailing of one individual movie file and multiple movie files. With the latter, some movie files will fail to get a thumbnail or ThumbsPlus will even crash. I have long ago stopped looking for the cause, and Cerious could never reproduce the problem.

Nowadays, when I want to thumbnail multiple movie files, I simply select them and press INS ('tag file'). That causes them to be added to the Tagged Images gallery, which in turn makes ThumbsPlus thumbnail them in 'individual mode', without crashing or otherwise failing (well, usually). Afterwards, I press Ctrl-INS to remove the tags. So, my suggestion is that you use this as a work-around.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: transfer data from tp5 to tp10

« on: 2021-11-20 15:05:08 »

You could download v10, install it in a separate folder and use its "Convert .TD4" function (1) to convert your database to the v8+ format. Then use the converted database (2) to see if everything is still there and works as expected.

(1) main menu: Database | Advanced | Convert .TD4

(2) main menu: Options | Preferences | Startup | Initial Database | Specific Database (with this, you can make TP10 load the converted database at startup).

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: Folder listing highlight obscures folder name

« on: 2021-10-29 16:55:56 »

Good to hear that it could be solved!

As for your screenshot, these must be exciting times for a Nikonian! (yesterday's Z9 announcement + Z lens roadmap)  :-)

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: Folder listing highlight obscures folder name

« on: 2021-10-29 15:18:00 »

How did you change the colors from their defaults?

Either way, the color options that I'm aware of are:

Window | Theme

Options | Customize | Colors (also note the option in the bottom left corner of this dialog)

Options | Preferences | Disks & Folders | Folder Tree Options | Use Vista/Win7 tree appearance   (unsure if this makes a difference)

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: TP v10 : new folders not being scanned

« on: 2021-09-20 23:34:24 »

I didn't comment on the ip address or serial numbers. To my knowledge they shouldn't matter. I would change that volume label though (from outside of TP, with TP not running).

Have you compared the volume properties as described earlier?

folks get new computers all the time.  I'd have hoped there was an automated way to do this; but in reviewing the help files there does not seem to be.

Correct.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: TP v10 : new folders not being scanned

« on: 2021-09-20 21:29:23 »

First, two precautions:

- Be sure to keep a backup of your database file.
- In Options | Preferences | Thumbnails, turn 'auto remove orphans' off (if it isn't already) to prevent that any thumbnails would be deleted if TP doesn't find the corresponding files where it expects them.
- In the same dialog window, turn 'Make thumbnails automatically' off. This helps avoid confusion on fast systems, where you might think that you are looking at your trusty old thumbnails when in fact TP has just produced them on the fly.

can I simply re "build" that mapped drive, or will it lose all my meta data and libraries?

Well, it depends. If ThumbsPlus shows you the old thumbnails (with their metadata etc) AND you can successfully open the files shown in ThumbsPlus, then they're in good shape and TP should not overwrite them when you use the Scan Drive, Scan Tree or Scan Folder commands to create thumbnails for new folders and files.

It's good that you see green and blue folders, but I'm puzzled that you do not see the new folders. I can think of only two explanations for that:

- It's not the new NAS drive after all (but that seems to be contradicted by the green color of the folders within). or:
- The 'Only show folders with thumbnails' option is on in Options | Preferences | Disks & Folders.

When you right-click on that drive in the tree panel, there's an option 'Volume Properties' that shows how that drive has been recorded in the database, and how it currently appears physically. Maybe that will tell you more about which drive (the new one, the old one or both) it represents.

I think the ideal solution, if you have a database backup from when you still used the old drive, would be this:

- Exit TP and restore that copy of the database file. Don't run TP yet.
- Be sure to give the new NAS exactly the same server name, volume label and folder structure as the old one (the server name is tied to the device, so if you only replaced the harddisk within, you won't have to fiddle with the server name).
- When you launch TP now, I would expect it to recognize the new NAS drive as the old NAS drive, and it should show both the old existing thumbnails and the new folders.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: TP v10 : new folders not being scanned

« on: 2021-09-20 18:59:47 »

Also... if you're sure that you are seeing the new NAS and you see TP actually making thumbnails, but they're not being saved, then you may not have writing rights to your database or the database file has somehow been made read-only.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: TP v10 : new folders not being scanned

« on: 2021-09-20 18:47:45 »

Maybe you're still seeing the thumbnails for the old NAS - does it look greyed-out in the tree?

ThumbsPlus has to match its thumbnail records in the database to the actual files in your system. With regular harddrives, it identifies them by their volume label. With network drives, it usually matches them by their share name (UNC). Drive lettters are not used. If your new NAS drive has a different server name, TP probably won't match your existing thumbnail records to the files on the new NAS (but see: Options | Preferences | Thumbnails to see how it performs the match on your system).

For this reason of matching files to their corresponding thumbnailrecords, it's important that you're consistent in how you approach your drive. In the tree, you may see it as a regular drive due to its mapping to a drive letter, but you'll also see it in the network branch. To ThumbsPlus, those are two different drives and when you thumbnail one, those thumbnails won't show when you look in the other.

(you can disable the display of certain drives, or the network branch, in the tree panel using Options | Preferences | Disks & Folders).

This is not a direct answer to your question but hopefully it will help you to find the solution.

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General Discussion / Re: overprinting on image

« on: 2021-03-18 13:53:52 »

You probably mean Image | Stamp in the viewer/editor.

This will print over (a section of) your image, like you asked. However if you prefer to add a border first and print on that, you can use Transform | Crop/Add Border for that. When you enter a negative value for 'amount', a border will be added (with positive values, the image will be cropped).

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: Photoshop Wont Start

« on: 2021-03-16 20:27:30 »

Some ideas...

Have you tried this also after a reboot? Just to exclude the possibility that you may have a stuck/crashed instance of PS still running in the background, which might keep another session from being launched.

When you go to Options | Customize | Tab:Programs and you Edit your entry for PS, and you use the [...] button to the right of its command line to lookup and select its executable, does that fix the issue?

If not, what I'd probably try next is to create a batch file that launches PS and then run that batch file instead.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Re: Batch SET Original Date/Time

« on: 2021-03-05 09:49:28 »

Thanks Bernie! Interesting approach, I had not heard of RSP before (I guess the 'dominant' solution for mass-editing metadata is still Exiftool with its cryptic commandline interface).