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I just had to reinstall on my notebook PC. I have two monitors, and I want my big external monitor to be my main monitor. In the past, TP started on my external monitor, but I can't get it to work now. I can't remember what I did in the past. I tried to use the Options -> Preferences -> Startup setting, but TP still started on my notebook. I went to Windows 10 settings, and made my external monitor my primary monitor. Now TP starts on the external monitor, but with the same size as if it had started on my notebook. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Helmer

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I use K-Lite Mega pack, and I can play all my videos. However, if I open my video folder and select scan folder, the process hangs on a small number of files, giving me an error saying "The background task failed". However, if I click on them individually, I can make thumbnails.

Since they were old files, I thought that I could just use a program like Freemake Video Converter to solve the problem, but batch thumbnails still hangs.

Any suggestion? I'm attaching the log and exc files. I honestly do not know what the problem is, and I'm afraid I don't understand those files.

Thanks!

Helmer

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Bad colors in animated gif
« on: 2021-01-07 09:57:49 »
I have problems with many animated gifs. Sometimes they only show some of the images correctly, while all the images in between them have wrong colors. In this example, everything plays fine, but if I stop, and then try to move image by image using alt+page up/down, the colors are wrong. I think it has something to do with transparent background. Anything I can do with the image of ThumbsPlus to solve such problems?

Thanks!

Helmer

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / DJVU files
« on: 2017-04-09 21:21:57 »
Does anybody know how to thumb DJVU files? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu
I have added the DJVU viewer as an external program, so I can view them, but I can't get thumbnails. I would like to see a thumbnail of the first page, just like pdf files.

Thanks!

Helmer Aslakse

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I am able to make thumbnails for PDF files using the plugin, but one of my files gives me an error about Digicam plug-in failed to load. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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I have a lot of problems thumbnailing video files. Some problems can be solved by deleting the thumbnails (Shift-Del) and then using Ins instead of F3. However, for many problem, it seems that you have to tweak your splitters filters/codecs. I use K-Lite's Full version, which has ffdshow.

Some of my mpg files only had black thumbnails. (It seems to be the ones with MPEG-2 Program Stream instead of Transport Stream.) I opened the Codec Tweak Tool and clicked on Codec and Filter Management: Preferred splitters. Scroll downed the left column (32-bit) until I saw .MPG. Then selected LAV instead of Microsoft. This solved my problem!

However, I don't really understand what's going on, because if click on Configuration: DirectShow Filters: Video Decoders: LAV Video decoder: Formats, I see that MPEG-2 is unchecked, so I really don't understand if I'm using LAV or not. If I click on Configuration: DirectShow Filters: Video Decoders: ffdshow video decoder (x86), I see that libavcodec is selected.

Anyway, it solved my black thumbnails.

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I recently used Disk Management to change the name of one my external drives. When I opened up TP, both the old and the new names appeared under Computer. Is there any way for me to change the name of the old version in TP or any other way to update TP? In the end I had to remove all the thumbs in the old version, refresh, and remake thumbs in the new one. There's probably something simple I'm missing, but I couldn't find it.

Thanks!

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I'm having some weird problems. It doesn't seem to occur all the time, but often when I try to move a group of files, a + appears instead, but nothing happens. Neither copy nor move. I have to drag them again. Then there is no +, and the files do move. Strange!

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I have a lot of problems with animated GIFs and TP. Most of them I've somewhat learned to live with, but one is causing a serious problem. Sometimes I will get lots of black dots when viewing the animation. Sometimes I will only get it when stepping through the animation. Any suggestions? It could be that the problem is with the files. Any suggestions for how I can change the file to avoid this problem? Thanks!

Helmer Aslaksen

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I've had to rebuild my database and I have to reconfigure some settings. I remember most of my old settings, and how I configured them, but I cannot seem to get the dimensions of my video files to show. I believe I was able to do that in the past.

I've checked Dimensions under Options->Preferences->Thumbnails View, and it shows for picture files, but not for video files. But if I right-click and select properties->details, I see the information I want.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

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General Discussion / TP10 & PDF
« on: 2015-07-05 12:48:10 »
Just installed TP10. The PDF plugin did not work. It had not been copied over from TP9. Had to do it manually.

I does not make thumbnails for filenames with Unicode letters in them. Earlier this year I solved that problem by upgrading to GS 9.15, but that does not work now.

Helmer Aslaksen

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / 3952 looks promising
« on: 2015-06-09 01:00:22 »
3950 was a disaster and introduced a number of errors that made it almost unusable. But 3952 seems to have fixed most of those.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Where did my status bar go?
« on: 2015-03-19 07:02:55 »
I don't know what happened, but while trying to do something in a hurry, my whole setup went haywire! I've managed to get most things back, but I still have one problem. My status bar is gone! In thumbs9.ini it says "StatusLine=1", but I can't see it. I've tried Ctrl-Shift L, but that doesn't do anything.

Another annoyance is that every time I open O[tions->Preferences->Thumbnail View, it selects Date Taken.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / PDF thumbnails
« on: 2015-03-15 10:40:37 »
I have installed the PS plugin, and most of my pdf files get thumbnails. But some just get a generic pdf icon. Any suggestions for what I can do with the files or ThumbsPlus to get proper thumbnails? Thanks! Using 9SP2.

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I have three files called 1.jpg, 2.jpg and 3.jpg. I sort by name. I use F2 to rename 2.jpg to 4.jpg. The display does NOT update. I then click on 3.jpg and use F2 to rename it to 2.jpg. The file then disappears! I'm left with two files: 1.jpg and 4.jpg. If click on another folder, the display of course updates, but this is very annoying!

Helmer Aslaksen

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