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Messages - Daan van Rooijen

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> > I believe that's what XCOPY /A is for. It reads the archive bit to see which files need backing up, but doesn't reset it, so that another program can use the archive bit too.
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> And of course that would work only the archive bit indicated which files had modified comments since the last XCOPY, which would require that the last XCOPY had had cleared it.

No. You would sync your files between PC and notebook using XCOPY, which would leave the archive bits alone, and then run the backup software, which would reset them.

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Hi Rich,

> > If it should happen again: Turn on the setting that copies image comments into database annotations, re-thumbnail the files, and sort them on annotation (for this, annotations must be made visible in the thumbnail view) to figure out more quickly which files have a comment.
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> Two problems with this approach:
> (1) These commented files were spread across dozens of folders, not all in one.

Well, instead of sorting you could also perform a search (tn.[annotation] > '') to find the images that have annotations. Or, if they are subfolders of the same parent folder, use "show child folders" and sort them.

> (2) It destroys the file names the camera had assigned.

It shouldn't affect the filenames at all.

> Is there any chance of making it's stickiness be durable across a quit and restart?

I can't answer that, but I doubt it.
 
> I synchronize my laptop and desktop via file modification dates via a batch script that uses:
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>   xcopy source target /D
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> I can't imagine how to safely use the archive bit for this without interfering with a backup system which also used the archive bit.

I believe that's what XCOPY /A is for. It reads the archive bit to see which files need backing up, but doesn't reset it, so that another program can use the archive bit too.

Best,

-Daan-

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> I frequently use the Thumbs Plus "Modify File Info" command (Ctrl-Shift-Q) to add comments (captions) to my JPEG photographs.  Unfortunately by default this command preserves the File Modification date & time unchanged.

Most users like to preserve the original timestamp that their camera assigned to the file because it allows them to view the files in chronological order. Photos are different from other files in that respect.

> Today I had to go through a few thousand pictures by hand to identify which ones I had commented

If it should happen again: Turn on the setting that copies image comments into database annotations, re-thumbnail the files, and sort them on annotation (for this, annotations must be made visible in the thumbnail view) to figure out more quickly which files have a comment.

> [..] and then explicitly change their modification times, in order to get them to properly get backed up as should have happened automatically.

Well, ThumbsPlus does offer you the option of updating the timestamp -you just have to remember using it- and it does properly update a file's archive bit when it modifies it (regardless of whether the timestamp is updated), so that should accomodate most backup strategies.

BTW, the Modify File Info dialog that you used deals with oldfashioned image comments from before IPTC and EXIF were introduced:

    [*] GIF: Version 89a comment field
    [*] JPEG: COM marker field(s)
    [*] TIFF: Description tag
    [*] PNG: Text fields
    [/list]

    I haven't tried, but I'm not sure if TP also fills the relevant IPTC (caption) and EXIF (user comment) fields, which other programs or other uses of the images may require. If that's an issue, it may be better to edit one of those fields instead, and use the relevant settings in Options | Prefs | Metadata to automatically copy the new contents into the comment field too.

    874
    > The jpg files from my camera run between 8 and 17 meg.

    Chances are that the built-in virtual memory manager is kicking in with those files, slowing down the rendering speed. If you haven't tried already, I'd recommend that you turn it off to see how much of a difference that makes (see [msg=17]If larger images load slowly..[/msg])

    875
    ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / TP& Preferences for a hot-rod
    « on: 2013-01-09 12:54:29 »
    > Interesting thought about the Preview Tab.  I never use it, but your thought makes me wonder if there is an INI setting to turn it off and if there might not be a performance increase with it off.  Any thoughts on that?

    I don't think it would make much of a difference if there were such an option (but there isn't in TP7 afaik). The responsiveness of the cursor in the thumbnail panel doesn't seem to be affected much by the process of creating and displaying previews. Even so, you could set that value to 0 to force TP to show the file's thumbnail instead of a larger sized preview image.

    Where performance is concerned, you could also have a look at this message:
    http://forums.cerious.com/forum/index.php?mode=entry&id=14. It explains two methods that might help you save a lot of time culling, keywording, categorizing (etc) your images.

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    ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / TP& Preferences for a hot-rod
    « on: 2013-01-09 09:47:34 »
    The default settings should work just fine, but you could probably increase the maximum filesize to load in the preview tab, as well as the Undo buffer size.

    To further increase performance, I'd disable ThumbsPlus' built-in virtual memory manager. See http://forums.cerious.com/forum/index.php?mode=entry&id=17

    ThumbsPlus would generally benefit most from the SSD drive if Windows' registry and temp files are on it, and to a lesser extent Windows itself. ThumbsPlus also interacts a lot with its database and its own ini file.

    877
    Options | Preferences | Thumbnail View: "Always show child folders" is probably on.

    878
    > The gallery system looks like it might be more complicated than the ones I mention above, and I'm not sure if that's safe or if it might disturb some other area in TP's internal management.

    I think only the developers (who don't seem to visit here often) can provide you with a definitive answer to that question, but I wouldn't expect any problems because gallery entries, as I understand them, are basically just pointers to the real file's thumbnail record.

    I'm only aware of one feature that finds copies of images in galleries (i.e. works the other way around), and that's when you view the properties [Alt+Enter] of a regular thumbnail and look in the Galleries tab. I think that TP just performs a quick, temporary search at that point to find that particular file in any galleries, but theoratically, it might be keeping track of a thumbnail's gallery entries elsewhere in a table, and in that case, blindly deleting gallery records without updating that other table might indeed break something. If I were in your shoes, I think I'd just create a test database and check what happens in the database when you create (and later delete, through SQL) your first gallery and gallery entry, and what happens in the corresponding file's Properties dialog after you have deleted it. Afterwards, you could also see if the built-in Database | Compact and Repair functions show any hiccups.

    879
    ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Twain devices
    « on: 2012-09-26 19:34:57 »
    My pleasure! I recently had both a 5 year old all-in-one and an 18(!) years old laserjet die on me, and to avoid any such problems I've simply bought second-hand machines of exactly the same type (but in better, as-new condition) to replace them.
    So, instead of looking for new equipment, uninstalling old drivers, diddling with plug-and-pray, configuring the new machines and then getting to know them, etc, all I had to do was dump the old printers and put the 'new' ones in their place. I saved money, lots of time and probably quite some frustration, so I'm still quite happy about that solution.. :-)

    880
    ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Twain devices
    « on: 2012-09-26 18:00:14 »
    > Does anyone know how to activate again a Twain source (scanner of HP C6380 All-in-One) that has gone missing from the T+ "Image aquire" menu (v7/sp2)?

    There should be a folder named Twain_32 in your Windows folder. Inside it are .DS ('data source') files for your twain devices. The one for your HP is probably missing.

    It should be part of the HP driver package for your all-in-one; locate the file, copy it to the twain_32 folder, reboot, turn the all-in-one on and it should work.

    p.s. Vuescan has its own drivers.

    881
    > because as i may have mentioned, none of my sort preferences are remembered

    Yes, see my first reply, last paragraph. The sort order really should be remembered and be used for all folders.. It works fine in my v7 (btw, I often use the keyboard shortcuts Alt-1 through Alt-5 to change the sort order, which works faster than using the mouse)

    Galleries have their own sort order. When you go into the Tree panel, Galleries section, you can right-click on the name of a gallery and choose Properties to change the order. Uniquely, galleries can also have a manual sort order (just set it to manual and drag the thumbnails in the desired order). That right-click menu also has an option to save the sort order, btw.

    882
    > i'm going to do more fiddling which means i'll end up with a lot of rubbish in tp. so if i want to "reset" everything that i've tested and start from scratch with a clean tp/td4,,, is there a reset button or something?

    No, there's no Undo for folder operations! When you move folders around in TP, it's the actual folders (and their contents, i.e. your image files) that get moved on your harddisk.

    The reason why you have to do it in TP is that if you had used Explorer, or another file manager, ThumbsPlus would not know what you have done and it would be unable to match-up its thumbnail records to your image files.

    So, sure, you can practice safely on some test folders, but keep in mind that whatever you are doing is 'real'!

    883
    If those commands are grayed out, go to Options | Preferences | General and turn on 'allow folder operations'. It's a safety precaution that Cerious built in to protect users against themselves (and to protect Cerious from thousands of panicky support calls I assume :-)

    884
    > however also my question is can i access and alter the default folder path itself as another option?,,,from "program files\paint shop pro\xxx " to "desktop\tpimages" or something similar.

    You're not stuck - in ThumbsPlus, in the tree panel, you can look-up or create the Desktop\TPImages folder, and then use drag-and-drop to move your current photo folders into that. So long as you use ThumbsPlus itself to do the moving, it will be able to keep track of your photos.

    885
    Yes, I think that's the correct label, and it appears that they're both the same already (Drive_C). So, in that case you only have to make sure that the folder path to the image files will be the same too.

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