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JeffTucker

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A hash value error?
Posted: 23 Mar 23, 19:54
 
An interesting sequence.... Create a test project with a few images in it, in a couple of folders. Any skin. Make sure you're using large originals.

  • Set the image bounds to 2000x1000.
  • Make the album.
  • Choose Process only updated subdirectories.
  • Change the image bounds to 1920x1080.
  • Make the album. The slide images are not regenerated. No surprise.
  • Uncheck Process only updated subdirectories.
  • Make the album. The slide images are still not regenerated.

At this point, your only option is to do a Force remake. But because Force Remake has never been separated into two options - Force remake of images and Force remake of videos - you're in for a long process if you have a project with a bunch of videos in it!

ETA: The kludgy workaround, of course, is to change the image bounds to something slightly different, like 1920x1081, and make the album again. As long as you don't repeat the mistake of processing only updated subdirectories, this will straighten things out again.
JeffTucker

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Re: A hash value error?
Posted: 19 Apr 23, 00:59   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
So, nothing?
davidekholm

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Re: A hash value error?
Posted: 19 Apr 23, 13:48   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
Sorry I missed this. You're probably right that we have "room for improvement" here :-)
MarkusD

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Re: A hash value error?
Posted: 19 Apr 23, 20:13   in response to: davidekholm in response to: davidekholm
 
davidekholm wrote:
Sorry I missed this. You're probably right that we have "room for improvement" here :-)
I would go one step further and ask: Is a "Force remake" really necessary? As we have seen so often in the last years users are not aware of what this really is doing. That it converts maybe dozens if not hundreds of videos which can last days (and I'm not talking about one or two days but more than a week or so) to finish.

In the past, David has rejected things that seemed too "dangerous" to him (keyword: save status whether to show excluded objects or not). This is minimally dangerous, I would even say it is absolutely not dangerous at all. But to do the "Force remake" (accidentally) in a project and thus possibly recode all videos, that's a disaster!

Just my 2 cents.
JeffTucker

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Re: A hash value error?
Posted: 19 Apr 23, 20:46   in response to: MarkusD in response to: MarkusD
 
MarkusD wrote:
I would go one step further and ask: Is a "Force remake" really necessary?

I'd get rid of it, but I would still like a way to force reprocessing of just the images, without triggering processing of all the videos, too. Video processing is what drives my PC into breathing hard. If you truly want to reprocess everything, you can just delete the local album and hit Make album again.

I'd bury the forced reprocessing of images somewhere deep - not sure where. Maybe on an Album > Advanced menu entry. But certainly not on a down arrow on the primary Make album button. Might be nice to have a parallel option to force reprocessing of just the videos, too.

I'd kill off Make test at the same time. That was fine in the days of simple "HTML table of thumbs leading to simple slide pages" skins, but the skins people are using these days are likely to misbehave when given only a "test" remake. Probably not providing much useful information.
davidekholm

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Re: A hash value error?
Posted: 20 Apr 23, 20:27   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
I'll think about allowing for the reprocessing of images but not videos.
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