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- in reply to: About thumbnails… #1584
Hi, I’ve added your request (increase thumbnail resolution) to the internal todo ist.
in reply to: How to keep View Mode and Zoom? #1580"Misukasten" wrote: Hello,
unfortunately until now there is no change in the behaviour of Tabbles at startup. View mode and zoom from the last Tabbles –
Hi, this is probably happening in 1.3.10 final. 😉
While UI is nice but in case of hundreds of tags it becomes really inconvenient.
I assume you refer to the main window (aka desktop) becoming cluttered.
Are you aware you can hide tabbles from the main window?
It there a plan (a chance) to build (may be alternative ? for those who interested in productivity more than in nice looking) a l pain grid interface:
– Tabbles become rows in a grid;Could you explain what problem would this solve? (Are you aware of the function which arranges tabbles by name? This creates a sequential layout, only more compact than the one you suggest.)
– Files in browsed takes only one row in a greed ? file name, location on the disk and tags assigned.
Again, what problem would this solve?
– All these grids are normal scrollable grids ? up and down arrows which completely redraw the window are slow and inconvenient.
That’s very difficult to achieve since in general the list could contain thousands of files. So the list-item for those files cannot exist in memory at the same time. Hence the current solution which only allows you to page down.
But Tagges periodically run background process to scan this drive; I kill it and Tagges runs it again.
This looks like a bug. Could you be more precise? Do you mean that, from time to time, in the "active tasks" window, you see an entry "applying rules recursively to folder F:"? (where F: is the drive letter).
Does this rescanning only happen for the removable drive? Does this only happen when you attach it, or also some other time?
And I can?t delete the table for this drive.
Why do you feel the need to delete the disk-tabble? Only as a workaround for the above bug, of for some other reason?
As I understand it, Tabbles checks for drives every so often (which has something to do with how Tabbles keeps up with file changes not done via Tabbles?).
Tabble does not check for drives periodically anymore. It once did though. Now it just listens to messages sent by Windows. (Windows sends messages like "this drive has just been attached /detached". In response to such messages, Tabbles creates disk-tabbles.)
Anyways, as a result you can’t hide any of the drive tabbles, or rather you can hide them until you reboot the program or otherwise cause Tabbles to redetect, then boom, they’re back. Kind of a pain for me too, but as I recall, Maurizio said there was nothing to be done because of the drive detection routines.
When you attach a drive, I need to give you a way to browse it with Tabbles. Currently this is accomplished by showing a disk-tabble which you can open.
I don’t think it actually runs any background processes on the drives, though it may look like it.
It seems there is a bug somewhere. I recall you told me that, from time to time, for no apparent reason, Tabbles starts scanning a disk recursively (applying rules recursively to folder C:, something like that). Now Serg seems to have the same problem. I don’t see why this should happen. Tabbles currently only scans a folder when it is created. (This is necessary because some rules might need to be applied to files in subfolders). Since root folders such as C: or D: are never created, Tabbles should never scan them. If it does, I need to understand why.
Could you tell me if this rescanning of root folders only happens for removable drives, or also for fixed drives?
in reply to: Moved from getsatisfaction #1523Hi,
I see in the db you attached there are 7 bad rules. So it is a corrupted DB. I still don’t understand how you managed to produce it (maybe it is a problem caused by an earlier version of tabbles, which did not clear the rules when you imported a new database, so you ended up having rules which you shouldn’t have had).
Anyway, in version 1.3.7 I added an integrity check to deal with your problem. Here’s what you can do: download and install version 1.3.7, choose tools > advanced > remove errors in db. 7 bad rules will be removed. ( I just tried). And from then on, your DB will be sound (= not corrupted). Then you have will be able to work.
If, after doing this, you are still able to make it crash, please let me know. Thank you. 🙂
in reply to: Moved from getsatisfaction #1519Hi mrdna, thanks for your help.
I can’t reproduce the problem. However, the error log you sent me tells me that it isn’t true that you do not have any rules defined. It seems you do have at least one rule. The crash happens when Tabbles is trying to create the list-item for that rule.
The problem seems to be that the rule assigns the file to a tabble that does not exist anymore, but has existed in the past, called "test tree". If you create a tabble with the same name, it should work again. Do you confirm?
However you have indeed found a bug. But I cannot see how you managed to delete a tabble without deleting the rule which applies that tabble. I had already managed the situation: each time you delete a tabble, I alredy delete all rules which assign that tabble. So I cannot see how you managed to get it crashing.
in reply to: Tabbles 1.3.5 is out: please test! #1512"NGKII" wrote: Hi!
Additional note on another subject. I tested the Replace the desktop under "Options". I use dual monitors and the "primary" monitor desktop was replaced. However, the secondary monitor wallpaper remained unchanged. Would be nice to have Tabbles as the desktop.
Nick
Thanks for the feeeback.
I think it is urgent to allow to put files on Tabbles’ desktop (AKA main window). Until then, Tabbles is not ready for the desktop. Dealing with secondary monitors is important but less urgent.
in reply to: Tabbles 1.3.5 is out: please test! #1508Could you make this last test? in the external drive, enter a subfolder which contains fewer files (e.g. 40 files), but enough to fill the file window. (Say, 80 files.) And tell me if the redrawing of files in this subfolder is as slow as in the root directory. Thank you.
in reply to: Tabbles 1.3.5 is out: please test! #1507"NGKII" wrote: Hi!
Yes, however, there are only 70 items vs 1,500 plus items on the external drive.
Nick
Since you told me that the delay does not happen before the first file is drawn, but between one file and another, then the number of files should make no difference.
So my guess is that this is a particularly slow drive, and, since in the latest version I read the file date and size each time I draw a file, drawing the file window has become slower.
I will do some changes to bring back the previous behavior, but it will take a few days.
in reply to: Tabbles 1.3.5 is out: please test! #1505"NGKII" wrote: Hi!
It is an external (USB 2.0) 160GB Western Digital Drive. No network drives. I do have an additional USB Flash Drive (16GB) and USB external drive (60GB) attached as well. However, I’m not attempting to access the later two drives.
Nick
Thanks. If you enter a hard disk drive (such as C:), does it seem faster?
in reply to: Tabbles 1.3.5 is out: please test! #1503Ok. What kind of drive is it ? Is it an hard disk or a removable drive or a network drive?
and do you have any network drives at all? Thanks
in reply to: Tabbles 1.3.5 is out: please test! #1501"NGKII" wrote: Hi!
I’m opening a drive. The window then opens displaying the folders/files on the drive. This takes several seconds. When the scroll directional appears I click on it to show the next screen of folders/files. This takes more seconds, etc. I’m not doing any sorting.
Nick
In the file window, please open the "view" menu, and tell me which of the following options is checked:
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Files with more tabbles
Files with fewer tabbles
Recently opened with Tabbles
Date modified
Recently tagged
Also: What kind of drive is it? Is it an hard disk?
Do you happen to have network drives?
in reply to: Tabbles 1.3.5 is out: please test! #1499"NGKII" wrote: Hi Andrea!
In my case it seems much slower. However, I’ve just recently started to use the software on a frequent basis and I’m somewhat reluctant to use it has my primary filing system at this point.
Thanks!
Nick
NGKII, Sorry for the incovenience. I need to know if the delay happens before the files are drawn, or while the files are being drawn. In other words, do you wait many seconds before you see the first file, or is there a long delay between one file and another?
Also, are you sorting files by "date modified"?
"mrdna" wrote: If I open WinExp via My Computer or a folder that’s on the desktop, then yes, the right-click options are there. When Tabbles spawns a WinExp window (locate in…) then no, they aren’t there.
I’ve added this to the todo, but I have no idea what could cause it. Let’s see if it happens in 1.3.4, probably out today.
in reply to: DOUBLE CLICK on a window #1452Thanks, I have added everything to the TODO list. However, at this time I can’t afford to implement such details; we have too many major features that are still missing.
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