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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / ok. i fixed it

« on: 2017-09-14 17:29:02 »

i have xp, but i also use 7.

i've been working feverishly.

what's happened is this - so okay i had everything up and running. now that i redirected the path, i tested it by moving the desktop files to another folder and everything is still okay, so now the path to the td4 is correctly in the tp folder - great.

but in the shuffle something got screwed up...all my latest moves in tp (i'm going to guess for the past several weeks) ARE NOT REFLECTED WHEN I OPEN TP! as a result i have been reassigning all my images from the past few weeks. like literally, images i moved to the "color/pattern" gallery were no longer present. even a new gallery i created just last week, "hairstyles", was not one of my "galleries". i don't understand what happened.

is it possible that all this time the only updated td4 has been the one on the desktop and not the one in the tp folder? i noticed that the desktop td4 shows 204 megabytes while the td4 in the tp folder is only 194000KB! i don't know how far back this discrepency exists.

all my backups have been of the tpfolder/td4 and that may have been the wrong one. it's the desktop/td4 that has been updated all this time,,,to the tune of an extra 10mg

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / ok. i fixed it

« on: 2017-09-14 10:41:51 »

i went into preferences and redirected the database address although i still don't know how a copy of the three files got onto my desktop.....any thoughts on why?

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / UH-OH serious problem here

« on: 2017-09-14 04:12:51 »

i tried opening my tp5 and got this message for the first time ever  ....

[5015/8036] Database error:SQL connect error;[0-IM006]
[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver's SQLSetConnectAttr failed.

i am presented with some options, like creating a new database(which is mind-bogglingly impossible as i have 5000 images on the database), but i chose "open existing database", which in turn presents me with the td4 already residing in the tp folder. I  click on it and tp opens however i am presented with this error every time now, and i must chose the existing db again.

in other words, my td4 is fine but the program cannot connect to it.

here's a history of my computer - a long while ago, probably a few years, i noticed FOR THE FIRST TIME that there was a td4, a Thumbs.tdo,  and a Thumbs.idb file residing on my desktop. I DO NOT know where these came from as i never mess around with the contents of the tp folder,,,but somehow someway, these three files suddenly appeared on my desktop - i didn't put them there. so, not knowing anything i sent the thumbs.tdo file to trash but when i tried to open tp it didn't open. so i restored the  file to my desktop and everything was fine. since then i have never messed with those three files on my desktop. so as it stands i have a td4  and thumbs.tdo file in the tp folder but also this other td4 and .tdo file on my desktop along with the thumbs.idb file

my guess is that for some reason, and this is a pure random guess, when i've been opening tp it has not been connecting to the files in the tp folder but maybe these three desktop files instead.

am i correct and HOW CAN I RIGHT THINGS
also,,,what the heck is the .idb file. there is no .idb file in the tp folder, only the tp4 and .tdo files

btw when i open tp5 on my backup laptop there are no such issues,,,none of the three files are on my desktop,,,so whatever is happening to tp on my desktop it is not happening on the laptop.

thx...concerned

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / program files (x86) folder?

« on: 2016-05-31 02:08:36 »

i'm getting so old smh

now i remember that old thread.

i'll get 7

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / program files (x86) folder?

« on: 2016-05-30 22:34:36 »

if i got a newer copy of tp, will the tp5 version of td4 work as long as i set up the same folder structure to my image source?

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / program files (x86) folder?

« on: 2016-05-30 16:27:37 »

so i'm trying windows7. i guess it installs 32bit programs in this (x86) folder.

i have been using windowsXP - the image resources for my tp5 is a 32bit program called "paint shop pro 5" and it is located in "program files\paint shop pro 5\images.

if i copy everything, psp5 and tp5,  to windows 7,,,will everything work?? i'm guessing both programs will install in the program files (x86) folder, not program files, so if i copy all my image etc etc and the td4 over to windows 7, will tp5 and psp5 sync correctly?

am i going to have to create a non-executable dummy folder for my psp in the program files folder and will this be enough.

thx,,,,milt

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / something odd. tp on my desktop?

« on: 2016-02-19 02:25:59 »

when i setup an tp on another computer i always copy/paste the td4 file.

is the tdo file another file i should copy/paste  and are there any other files to consider copying.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / something odd. tp on my desktop?

« on: 2016-02-14 22:23:58 »

both  the start.desktop exe's work. it's just that when i deleted the new desktop version, the start version didn't. originally, when this happened, i thought the td4 file was what i saw on the desktop because of what happened when i deleted it.( i did a recover to restore the desktop file.) it wasn't until a week ago that i realized the desktop file is an exe.

btw, i just noticed something else. there's a TDO file on the desktop too!  what's up??

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / something odd. tp on my desktop?

« on: 2016-02-14 17:57:26 »

soi noticed this a while back and had been meaning to post.

i found,,like literally i did not know it was there ever before for 15yrs( i think it just appeared one day),,,a tp5.exe on my desktop(windowsXP)
it's not a td4 file, at first i thought it was a stray tp file so i deleted it. when i went to START/TP5 as is the norm, tp didn't start. i can't remember if the program itself didn't start or if  there was an error message. i don't want to replicate this event because it'll freak me out.

so essentially i have two executables now,,,the one in START/TP5 and the one on DESKTOP/TP5. since everything is backed up i'm a little concerned about this at some future point if i have to go to another computer.

any thoughts? i mean, i guess fiddle with what works but why are the two exe's linked in this manner and where might the desktop exe have come from?

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / OK I PRINTED ALL 4

« on: 2015-10-25 22:41:21 »

i crop to eliminate the unused part of the image. if there's a full figure,, i might want to crop down to the head or hands.

if i do a crop > save, it alters the original file
if i do a crop > save as, it asks me to save the file somewhere on my computer.

it appears i might have to right click the thumbnail and gallery > add to > xxx,,,then do my cropping of all those files and then continue on

as you said

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / another question

« on: 2015-10-25 19:02:06 »

ok. i can crop and "add to gallery", but i cannot add to the SAME gallery.

so now my question is, can i print multiple images FROM DIFFERENT GALLERIES to one page.

i tried cropping and saving to another gallery,  but it won't let me



thx again

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / OK I PRINTED ALL 4

« on: 2015-10-25 18:47:42 »

i had to do it as you say, from thumbnails. whatever happened before when i was only given an option of 2 images is now back to multiple images - i do not know what happened before.

i guess now my question is, is there a away to crop and save IN A GALLERY on the fly. i think this is the only way to circumvent the crop issue. but the thing is, when i tried cropping and saving( i tried several options in the file tab) it only allowed me to save to my desktop....if possible i would like to save to the tp gallery

or is there another way

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / is there a way to place multiple images on a page

« on: 2015-10-25 18:28:25 »

can i take a screen shot in a windows xp function? i actually tried taking a screenshot of all 4 print screens together using my image editor, but as soon as i created a window for all 4 print screens, 3 of them defaulted back to only one image - weird

it's simple enough to explain though. 4print screens, each with ONE image, each with the same settings except that i have to use the margin control on each image. so when i choose "print", only the one screen will print. there is no layout for all four.

i was able to do two thumbnails but was not given a choice of 4

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / is there a way to place multiple images on a page

« on: 2015-10-25 17:03:46 »

no. i do not see a layout of all four images

my print screen does not have "auto crop images". everything else is the same as your print screen. btw, something changed. where i used to have an option for multiple images, now there's only an option for 2 ??? i just printed two images on a page but they were in hilited thumbnails...i did not open both

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / i also tried

« on: 2015-10-25 16:49:40 »

i opened four images
opened four print screens
set each exactly the same except i positioned each accordingly so as not to print over each other

still only printed one image