About 10 years ago I got a job, which included to reprograph and archivate hundreds of pictures and documents. At that time (about 2006/2007) I looked for a program to organize this - and detected ThumbsPlus (I don't remember the version number at that time).
Some times later I decidet to use it also for my own digital photography and also for building websites for other customers.
I had sometimes problems, but they could be resolved more or less perfect every time, and I did very much efforts to perfect and maintain my libraries and some of my customers. The use of flexible galleries is very important and essential for that.
For many years I'm now using the german version of ThumbsPlus 7 Professional. But it is somewhat out of time - for example, it cannot handle UTF character encoding in comments and descriptions of entries.
In the last years I have made some efforts to upgrade to TP 8, TP 9, and now TP 10 - and never succeded. There are no more German versions after TP 7, and some problems occur with different file extension names between the German and the English version of the program. This is probably nowhere documented, but with hours of looking and trying one seems to be able to find all that out.
Now TP 10 is able to convert direct the database format from TP 7, what earlier was very terrible (via .txt-Files or so), so I could really fast convert to TP 10 as database manager.
But what I never, never, never succeded was the transformation of all my Webgalleries, and they are a very great and important part of it all.
So I'm now at the very last (!!!) time to decide, if I should kill ThumbsPlus at all and look for other tools, or get in the next one or two weeks the solution for moving all my work to an actual and living (?) version.
You can find with ThumbsPlus generated galleries there:
[link=http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/index.html]http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/index.html[/link]
[link=http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/SommerIrschenberg2012/index.htm]http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/SommerIrschenberg2012/index.htm[/link]
(...)
[link=http://www.foto.ungruen.de/index2.html]http://www.foto.ungruen.de/index2.html[/link]
[link]http://www.foto.ungruen.de/Menschen%20und%20Farben/index.htm[/link]
(...)
[link]http://www.modebayrischzell.net/MODE_und_mehr/Willkommen.html[/link]
[link]http://www.modebayrischzell.net/MODE_und_mehr/Mode/Seiten/Damen/index.htm[/link]
(...)
and some more. I've nearly 200.000 entries in my database, and hundreds of galleries ... and it would be really hard to give all that up und look for another solution.
But if I cannot get the whole maintenace, especially of the galleries, working with an actual and supportet version, I must do so.
It would be very kind, if someone could help me with that.
Greetings from southern Germany/Bavaria:
[link]http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/FeuerhimmelIrschenberg/index.htm[/link]
Thank you very much for any help - Johannes