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nigel-aves

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Photoblogger - Problem with "Enhanced Folders" - get black box with broken
Posted: 30 Sep 23, 17:43 		 
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Attachment Image1.jpg (572.4 KB)
I was looking at the "Enhanced Folders: options but could not get it to work correctly. (see attachment). This happened in both preview and after upload.

I tried the 4 different folder options but I always ended up with the black box, broken image icons (3 of them) and a " + " sign that linked to the entire sub-album.

It could easily be me making a mistake with another setting causing this, but I don't know.
RobM

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Re: Photoblogger - Problem with "Enhanced Folders" - get black box with broken
Posted: 30 Sep 23, 21:00   in response to: nigel-aves in response to: nigel-aves 		 
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The album folders are not being created:
Making "Sample Portfolio" (Changes)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/robert/My Albums/Sample Portfolio/album/Nature/data1.json (No such file or directory)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/robert/My Albums/Sample Portfolio/album/Objects/data1.json (No such file or directory)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/robert/My Albums/Sample Portfolio/album/People/data1.json (No such file or directory)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/robert/My Albums/Sample Portfolio/album/Travel/data1.json (No such file or directory)
Laza

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Re: Photoblogger - Problem with "Enhanced Folders" - get black box with broken
Posted: 2 Oct 23, 10:23   in response to: nigel-aves in response to: nigel-aves 		 
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Is Settings / Advanced / General / Process subdirectories turned on?
JeffTucker

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Re: Photoblogger - Problem with "Enhanced Folders" - get black box with broken
Posted: 2 Oct 23, 14:58   in response to: Laza in response to: Laza 		 
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Laza wrote:
Is Settings / Advanced / General / Process subdirectories turned on?

That does appear to be the setting that causes exactly this effect. I always wonder why users change those from their defaults.

In any event:



ETA: In fact, two of those should probably be removed from the app. I can't think of a use case for not processing subdirectories at all, or not including them in the index pages. Processing only updated subdirectories is also dangerous, but I do use it myself when I'm just adding some photos to the family web site, and I know that I haven't done any jAlbum or skin updates since the last album build.
nigel-aves

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Re: Photoblogger - Problem with "Enhanced Folders" - get black box with broken
Posted: 2 Oct 23, 18:27   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker 		 
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Jeff,

Looked and those settings were still in their default mode. The attached file shows the full setup I'm using with the result.

Thanks for pointing me to those settings.

Nigel.
JeffTucker

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Re: Photoblogger - Problem with "Enhanced Folders" - get black box with broken
Posted: 3 Oct 23, 02:28   in response to: nigel-aves in response to: nigel-aves 		 
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I think we're going to need a link to a live album that shows the problem.

In short, "works when I do it." So, there must be something different, but from random screenshots, we can't tell what the difference is.
nigel-aves

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Re: Photoblogger - Problem with "Enhanced Folders" - get black box with broken
Posted: 3 Oct 23, 04:26   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker 		 
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Once I knew that you had it working all OK, I decided that it must be the way I'm doing things on my end!

So, I sat down tonight to see what was happening. I thought that by turning the option on it would display the 2nd level albums. WRONG!

I didn't realize that it was needing hard and fast photographs under the album, and of course, in my case there were none to show. (in a way it's a shame it doesn't work like album Icons, that digs down until it finds a photo to display)

I think were I went wrong was in the wording of the options. Enhanced Folders / Default folder icon which in my muddled brain translated to displaying 2nd level albums.

SO, very very sorry for what turned out to me wasting your time with a sprinkling of "operator error"!

BTW I used to work in development, if I hear "works on my machine" ever again .... :)

Nigel.
nigel-aves

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Re: Photoblogger - Problem with "Enhanced Folders" - get black box with broken
Posted: 3 Oct 23, 04:43   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker 		 
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as a post script.

It's a shame that the code when it finds no photographs to display doesn't skip that album.

My typical layout for my web sites is like this : https://gallery.soft-focus-imagining.com/index.html

As you can see, if you click the first album "All New Shoots" as you can see, nothing but sub-albums!

Nigel.

Edited by: nigel-aves on 2 Oct 2023, 20:43
JeffTucker

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Re: Photoblogger - Problem with "Enhanced Folders" - get black box with broken
Posted: 3 Oct 23, 14:03   in response to: nigel-aves in response to: nigel-aves 		 
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nigel-aves wrote:
SO, very very sorry for what turned out to me wasting your time with a sprinkling of "operator error"!

Don't apologize! I think you've uncovered a very unfriendly bit of behavior by the software. It really should do a better job of detecting that one of the folders has no images at the top level. After all, that's not a particularly unusual situation to have in a big album.

I'm not sure what I think it should be doing, but coughing up the "broken image" icon is certainly suboptimal. I think it should probably be dredging up the representing thumbnails from the folder layer below that, and a generic folder icon if they're truly empty.
Laza

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Re: Photoblogger - Problem with "Enhanced Folders" - get black box with broken
Posted: 3 Oct 23, 14:23   in response to: nigel-aves in response to: nigel-aves 		 
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Broken mosaic images are not supposed to appear at any time. Empty folders should be skipped. I'll look into this bug. Thanks for reporting!
nigel-aves

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Re: Photoblogger - Problem with "Enhanced Folders" - get black box with broken
Posted: 3 Oct 23, 18:57   in response to: Laza in response to: Laza 		 
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Thank you everyone ... I feel vindicated!

Nigel.
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