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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Grainy Resizing?
« on: 2013-08-03 23:40:40 »
> It would be great if TP would provide this algorithm out of the box or as a pluging.

Agreed, Lanczos would be great to have! And an Mspline-like option for upsizing would be great too.

btw, for the OP: it's generally a good idea to run Image | Filter | Select Filter | Sharpen | Unsharp Mask after you've used Resize to make an image smaller. Basically, this will restore the sharpness that was lost in the resizing. Once you have used a filter, you can simply press Ctrl-F to apply the same filter again (on another image).

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> There are no previous ThumbsPlus files that can be found on this computer.

I remember having the same problem and I think I solved it by downloading (from http://www.cerious.com/archive.shtml) and running the v8 installer, telling it to remove v8, and then installing v9 again. But knowing myself I probably also edited the registry to remove any seemingly relevant references to ThumbsPlus 8, so I'm not sure what eventually did the trick.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / multiple instances
« on: 2013-08-02 00:54:02 »
> As an extra benefit can I have one instance addressing one database and the other instance addressing a 2nd database and drag files between windows? (My DB is reaching its practical limits!)

You can, but that would only copy the image files, not their thumbnails and the other information from their database records.

If you want to split your database in two:

    [*]Make copies of your database file and its accompanying *.tdo settings file. Give the new set of .td4/.tdo a distinct first name (e.g. thumbs_2.td4 and thumbs_2.tdo).
    [*]Load one database and delete one half of the thumbnails from it.
    [*]Run File | Database | Compact to physically remove the deleted thumbnails and free up a ton of space.
    [*]Load the other database, delete the other half of the thumbnails from that, and run Compact on it.
    [*] Now you have two databases, each containing one half of your images,
    [/list]

    (To delete thumbnails without deleting the corresponding image files, select them and press Shift-Del. To select thumbnails from a folder and all of its subfolders, right-click on its name in the tree panel and select 'Show child folders' to make all files visible, and selectable. Or better still, to delete all thumbnails from a drive or folder branch, simply right-click on it in the tree panel and select 'Remove Thumbnails').

    844
    > You can ago to OPTIONS>PREFERENCES>THUMBNAIL VIEW and turn this option to "always" be on. Is this not working for you or are you wanting ThumbsPlus to have different behavior or different options for showing child folders?

    Hi Laura, thanks for your replies!

    Yes, Child Folders is a setting that I prefer to be Off for most folders - I have only one folder in which I use it regularly. So, I prefer to activate it manually, but it would be nice if the setting would stick while I'm working in that folder.

    845
    ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / multiple instances
    « on: 2013-07-30 12:18:54 »
    > am I able to launch T+7 pro in two adjacent windows without scrambling or jeopardising my database?

    Speaking for myself, I've never experienced any problems doing that. Of course I still keep backups of my database just in case.


    > (I did once lose a bunch of video files when trying to move them between folders using T+7- I think all the windows indexing must have got screwed.)

    This is the first time I hear of anyone ever losing files to TP7..

    846
    ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Grainy Resizing?
    « on: 2013-07-29 23:32:06 »
    In the Resize dialog, set the 'interpolation' option to Downsample or Bi-Cubic. If that doesn't help, are you sure that it's a 24-bit image?

    847
    > However, there is an odd behavior.  I have Options|File Loading|Movie/Sound|Thumbnail options|Percentage of file length checked and set to 25%.  If I select multiple and press F3 or scan folder or scan tree, the generated thumbnail seems to ignore this setting.  If I select an individual video and press F3, a different thumbnail is generated from what the scan generated and it appears to observe this option setting.

    That's interesting! So, for you the regular thumbnailing commands produce thumbnails from the wrong part of the movie files, and I get generic icons instead of thumbnails.

    My "Percentage of file length" setting was at 76%, but changing it to your value of 25% didn't make a difference.

    The way that I make thumbnails for multiple movie files is by selecting them and then pressing INS to tag them. When a non-thumbnailed file is tagged, ThumbsPlus makes a thumbnail for it before adding the tag. So, that is the workaround that I use.. the thumbnails that I get are the same as when I press F3 on a separate file, and the "Percentage of file length" option seems to work correctly.

    848
    ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / moving a folder
    « on: 2013-07-28 12:14:36 »
    First be sure that "Allow folder operations" is On under Options | Preferences | General.

    Then, to move a folder, go to the Tree panel and either drag it to its desired location, or right-click on its name, select Move Folder and browse to where you want to have it.

    849
    System: XP Pro sp3, TP9 build 3928

    I have several video filetypes (flv, mp4, webm) defined as equivalent to MPG, which in turn is loaded using Internal (i.e. through directshow, which on my system uses [link=http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/]FFDSHOW Tryouts[/link] to decode them). I can thumbnail them just fine on a one-by-one basis and the viewer shows them correctly too.

    However, when I select multiple video files and press F3, ThumbsPlus doesn't thumbnail them but instead assigns a generic icon to them (of the videoplayer that these filetypes are associated with in Windows). The same thing happens when I use Thumbnail | Scan Folder or Scan Tree from the menu.

    850
    When you use the 'Include Child Folders' option to view not just the contents of the current folder but also those of its subfolders, and you refresh the folder or do something that causes ThumbsPlus to refresh it (e.g. Remove Orphans), then the 'Include Child Folders' option is turned off.

    I have a few folders that are so large that 'watch changes in folder' no longer works reliably there. So, I refresh it manually very regularly, and it's a bit of a pain that I have to remember to re-enable 'Include Child Folders' everytime.

    851
    When you use multiple databases, there's a problem with external programs.

    External program definitions for menus and toolbars are stored in Thumbs9.Config, but the actual program definitions are stored in the database.

    Consequently, when you load a different database, TP9 still shows these external programs in the menu and in your toolbar, but they do not work.

    I can think of multiple workarounds, such as not loading menu and toolbar entries for external programs if no matching definitions exist in the database, but it would be nice if TP9 would offer (once) to copy the external programs to the other database when you create or load a new database.

    852
    System: XP Pro sp3, TP9 build 3928 w/ 5-user home network license

    When I use TP9 and launch a second copy, then exit that 2nd instance a bit later, the original instance will pop up an error <8041> saying that my session is not active in the database for multiuser license validation, and the program exits.

    This doesn't happen until I have exited the 2nd instance of TP, so, what I think happens is that TP terminates all sessions of the current user instead of just the one that he's closing, and as a result, any other running instances are logged out too.

    This is not specific to build 3928, I've seen it in prior TP9 releases too.

    I often run multiple instances so I can work on multiple folders at the same time.

    853
    ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Custom Menus
    « on: 2013-07-13 18:01:28 »
    > When trimming to proportion, the masked area can be flipped between portrait and landscape by right-clicking on it.  Is there a keyboard shortcut that does the same thing?

    I don't think there is! (but I would be happy to learn that I'm wrong :)

    854
    ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Custom Menus
    « on: 2013-07-13 16:50:30 »
    Right-click on the new menu entry and choose Customize. A window opens that you can just ignore (but leave on screen). Right-click on the menu item again, and a context menu appears from which you can edit its name.

    855
    Laura: if you haven't already, you should give FFDShow Tryout a try. It allows you to play almost any conceivable multimedia file through the Directshow interface. I'm watching .webm, .flv and .mp4 files without problems in TP7 and TP9 and I never have to fiddle with codecs again.

    http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/

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