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I just downloaded and installed this latest Thumbsplus build. I've noticed that when I have Thumbsplus running, the icon in the system tray does not show the Thumbsplus icon as previous builds did. See attached screen dump, where I have the mouse hovering over the system tray icon for ThumbsPlus. The Start menu and desktop icons for Thumbsplus show the correct icon, and I haven't found any problems with the app, it's just the system tray for the running app that is blank.

OS is Windows 10 x64 v1803 build 17134.



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General Discussion / Thumbsplus FAQ seriously out of date
« on: 2016-01-25 18:59:15 »
I had a look at the FAQ ([link=http://www.cerious.com/faq.shtml]http://www.cerious.com/faq.shtml[/link]) to see what it said about thumbnailing raw files (neither my Canon CR2 nor Sony ARW files are getting thumbnailed), but I find that the most recent version that gets a mention is TP8 SP1, now almost five years old...

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Have to install TP9 before TP10
« on: 2016-01-25 14:39:30 »
When trying to install TP10 as a fresh install rather than an upgrade, my license isn't accepted as valid.

When TP10 was released my TP9 license continued to be valid for it (as per the release notes at http://www.cerious.com/release_notes10.shtml). However, after installing the latest 4007 build of TP10 as a fresh install on a rebuilt machine, when I attempted to enter my license name and code from TP9, I got the response "Code does not validate". I had to uninstall TP10, install TP9, enter the license there,  then install TP10 again, and then uninstall the no longer needed TP9.

Do I need a new license key in order to be able to install TP10 from scratch.

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When TP10 was released my TP9 license continued to be valid (as per the release notes at http://www.cerious.com/release_notes10.shtml). I've just reinstalled Windows on my laptop, and installed the latest 4007 build of TP10, but when I enter my TP9 license name and code, I get the response "Code does not validate". Do I have to uninstall TP10, install TP9, enter the license there, and then install TP10 again in order to get TP10 licensed?

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OS is Win10 x64. According to Control Panel, I have Thumbsplus 10 4005 and Thumbsplus Digicam 5.5 installed, and nothing else from Cerious. When I have a look at folders under "C:\Program Files (x86)", I see a ThumbsPlus10 folder (23Mb), a "ThumbsPlus 10" folder (153Mb), and a ThumbsPlus9 folder (47Mb).

Under C:\ProgramData, as well as the ThumbsPlus folder containing the database, there are two hidden folders with GUID type names:

1. "{EE7B9322-9812-4561-8632-B88B1348F4B9}" (148Mb in size), which contains files related to TP Digicam 5.4, and a folder named OFFLINE containing a whole heap of subfolders with 8 character hex digit names

 Directory of C:\ProgramData\{EE7B9322-9812-4561-8632-B88B1348F4B9}

26/04/2015  05:10 PM               113 instance.dat
04/03/2015  05:36 AM           575,060 mia.lib
26/04/2015  05:10 PM              OFFLINE
26/04/2015  05:10 PM             1,874 tp_digicam54.dat
04/03/2015  05:36 AM         3,747,264 tp_digicam54.exe
26/04/2015  05:10 PM                 0 tp_digicam54.lnk
04/03/2015  05:36 AM           540,672 tp_digicam54.msi
26/04/2015  05:10 PM            36,138 tp_digicam54.par
04/03/2015  05:36 AM         2,674,939 tp_digicam54.res
26/04/2015  05:10 PM                 0 {A7284E29-CC2E-48E8-AB86-0D32B247B7A5}

2. "{FCCD3471-F36E-4957-88BC-900977D57B94}" (143Mb in size), which seems to have stuff related to the latest TP10 build

 Directory of C:\ProgramData\{FCCD3471-F36E-4957-88BC-900977D57B94}

24/11/2015  09:26 AM                95 instance.dat
21/11/2015  07:44 AM           575,060 mia.lib
24/11/2015  09:26 AM              OFFLINE
24/11/2015  09:26 AM               630 thmpls10-4005.dat
21/11/2015  07:44 AM         3,236,040 thmpls10-4005.exe
24/11/2015  09:26 AM               142 thmpls10-4005.lnk
21/11/2015  07:44 AM           630,784 thmpls10-4005.msi
24/11/2015  09:26 AM            13,221 thmpls10-4005.par
21/11/2015  07:44 AM         3,550,429 thmpls10-4005.res
24/11/2015  09:26 AM                 0 {4E3BEDC4-E3A1-4211-875D-38B6B921ADCF}

From all this it looks like various ThumbsPlus installs over time have splattered files all over the place. As my C: drive is an SSD with limited space and getting quite full, I would like to know which of these folders are required and which I can delete to save space.

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I just had to reinstall Windows on my PC due to frequent freezes. I re-installed Win7, then let it upgrade to Win10, installed all updates, then started installing applications. TP10 build 4004 installed and runs without problem, but TP-Digicam 5.4 won't install as it doesn't detect that TP10 is installed: "The installer cannot locate Thumbsplus on this computer. It was either not installed properly or moved manually. Please reinstall Thumbsplus before running this installer." When I installed TP10 I left all options at the default. I have also run the install a 2nd time - doesn't fix the problem with the TP-Digicam install.

How do I get around this problem.

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I find that having installed the release version of TP10, I have separate icons for TP9 and TP10, and I can run both TP9 and TP10, but when I go to Control Panel / Programs and Features to uninstall TP9, there is only a single Thumbsplus entry, and if I try to run uninstall for that, it wants to uninstall TP10. How can I uninstall TP9?

The problem is the same on both my desktop, running Windows 7 x64, and my laptop, running Windows 8.1 x64.

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I've noticed that if I have the TP9 main window maximized when I close the application, when I re-open it, TP9 opens with the window filling the entire screen but not actually maximized - the little icon next to the red "X" at the right end of the title bar is indicating that the window is not maximized, the very top of the window title bar is slightly off the screen, and I can see part of the left and bottom window borders and actually grab and drag them - window borders do not exist for a maximized window. When I click on the title bar icon to maximize the window, it maximizes as expected.

I had a look in startup preferences, and "Remember window size and position" is checked.

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I have quite a lot of medium format film scanned as 16-bit TIFF files - those which were originally B&W images I converted to 16-bit greyscale in Photoshop in order to save a couple of hundred megabytes per image, as the 16-bit RGB TIFFs are around 300Mb each.

TP9 - current version, build 3946 - thumbnails these 16-bit greyscale TIFFs without any problem, but when I try to open any of them in the TP9 viewer, I just get a blank black window. If I convert one of them back to 16-bit RGB in Photoshop, then the TP9 viewer can show them without any problem.

The same 16-bit greyscale images display without any problem in Windows Photo Viewer, Photoshop, and Lightroom.

OS is Windows 8.1 x64, video card is nVidia Quadro K2200 with the current nVidia driver.

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If I'm in the Advanced tab of the Preferences dialog and click the Help button, the first two entries shown in the help file, "Maximum image bitmap cache size" and "Bitmap window size for larger images", don't exist as fields in the dialog.

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If I'm producing both RAW and JPG for each camera image, it would be advantageous, when quickly going through the images after they have been loaded from the camera to the PC, to have an option be able to have next go to the next JPG rather than go through both the RAW and JPG for each image. JPGs load in about half a second - RAW images take anywhere from 5-10 seconds to load, depending on which camera produced the RAW.

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TP9 build 3943 with latest Digicam and CDRaw plugins still doesn't support the RAW files from either camera, even though the Fuji has been on the market since 2012 and the Canon for about a year. Any chance of getting support for either camera some time?

Some sort of image can be seen for the Canon RAWs, even though the colour is completely wrong and there is no correction for lens distortion, but the Fuji RAWs just show a completely black blank image for both the thumbnails and and for the file if you try to load it. I've tried both plug_digicam and plug_digiraw for both file types, with equally bad results for both with either converter.

On Linux I can use dcraw v9.21 successfully to convert both file types to TIF or JPG...

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