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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Image rotation problem

« on: 2014-12-03 04:27:57 »

Yes it works!  I am so happy this bug has finally been fixed.  Many thanks for pointing out the beta release.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Image rotation problem

« on: 2014-12-02 06:54:40 »

When I batch resize images with TP9 SP1 from original camera JPEG files there is a problem with the orientation of images shot in vertical (portrait) orientation.  The original files are fine but the output files appear correct in the thumbnails, but when opening them in TP9 or various other file viewers they are not rotated.  It is necessary to manually rotate them 90 degrees counterclockwise.  When I rotate them the thumbnail stays the same (portrait) but the image then displays correctly.  Unfortunately this is not the end of the problem because I have experienced some cases where the manually rotated images appear rotated in the other direction when viewed on some other software.  I use a custom application written in Visual Basic that will display the un-rotated files correctly but if I manually rotate them to make them appear correct in TP9 and the Windows image viewer they will be rotated too far.  The result is that it becomes very confusing to know whether to rotate images or not because it depends where the images will be used.

I am using various Canon cameras (EOS 1Ds MkIII, EOS 1D MkIV, EOS 5D MkIII) and the same thing happens with all of them.  I shoot raw CR2 files simultaneously with JPEGs.  If I use Canon Digital Photo Professional to process the CR2 files and output to full size JPEG images (replacing the ones that came out of the camera) TP9 will rotate the images correctly and the problem goes away.  So a workaround solution is to batch process all portrait shots in DPP, but this is a pain and slows down my workflow.

By the way, this was never a problem with TP7 or earlier (I don't know about TP8 as I have never used it).

I reported this to Cerious when I first upgraded to TP9 but I never received an answer.  I also note that this has been reported before in this forum but there were no replies to the thread.  Does anyone know if there is a better solution to this problem?  My computer is Windows 8.1 64 bit.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Files with "._00_" prefix

« on: 2014-12-01 22:29:54 »

Daan, thanks for the reply.  The files I am resizing are jpegs 1000x667 pixels.  The only batch step is the resize to 100x100 pixels - nothing else.  The original file names are, for example, arc14-0001.jpg.  When the problem occurs the output file will be ._00_arc14-0001.jpg.  My original files are in a folder called 'Images' and I am sending the output files to a folder called 'Thumbs'.

In the output dialog the output format is .jpg:JPEG Compressed.  Everything else is blank except 'Specific folder' for the output, and the saved set name.  The JPEG options are set to:

Quality: 71  (Use original quality is off)
Smoothing: 0
Sub-sampling 2:2(default)
Progressive JPEG: off
Remove file information: off
Suppress JFIF header: off

Just for fun I did a test batch of 100 images numbered arc14-0001.jpg to arc14-00100.jpg.  Seven images suffered the problem on the first run: ._00_arc14-0008.jpg, and also 0012, 0014, 0057, 0060, 0072, 0099.

I ran the same batch to a new folder immediately after and this time there were eight failures: 0024, 0040, 0050, 0058, 0060, 0075, 0090, 0100

I am not using a network drive.  The laptop I am using now is brand new (this is day 2) so it is pretty clean, but I had exactly the same problem with my old one.  

I have McAfee antivirus installed by the computer vendor (Dell).  Same for my old computer too.  I disabled McAfee and - YES!!!  All thumbnails were present and correct.  Same for a second batch.  Then I re-enabled McAfee and ran it again and had fourteen failures.  So it seems that McAfee is causing the problem.  And I guess I have answered my own question regarding a work-around solution.  Do you, however, have any idea if there might be a more elegant solution (ie. not involving disabling the intivirus every time I run a batch)?

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Files with "._00_" prefix

« on: 2014-12-01 09:34:47 »

When I do a batch process to resize files some of them are saved with a prefix "._00_" before the original file name.  This seems to happen more when the output files are small (in this case 100 x 100 pixels).  Out of a batch of 100 files sometimes 30 suffer this problem, but other times it will be only one or two.  And it is always different files even if I run the batch again.

I can manually rename the output files by removing the "._00_" prefix one at a time and the JPG files are not corrupt, so it only seems to be a problem with the renaming of the files.

I have had this problem for a considerable time - ever since TP9 was released.  I have just migrated to a new computer and I hoped that the issue would go away, but sadly it is exactly the same.  Both my old and new computers run Windows 8.1 64 bit.

Is there a workaround to this problem?

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / IPTC-Editor like in ThumbsPlus 7

« on: 2014-12-01 09:23:39 »

I would like this too.  I also keep TP7 for the same reason.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / No Reply at all from support - Am I the only one?

« on: 2014-12-01 09:19:06 »

I agree.  They seem to have lost interest.  Shame.