<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thank you for the replies. I don't really have the time now to try to trace or debug KPA. I have done the following:<br><br>I first moved about 2,000 photos from the directory upon which I am working.The problem still occurred. I then removed another 1,000 or so. Now it has been working without crashing for about 10 hours. I guess the next step is to start adding them back to see if I can narrow things down.<br><br>Murray<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 5/14/11, Miika Turkia <i><miika.turkia@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Miika Turkia <miika.turkia@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [KPhotoAlbum] KPhotoAlbum Crashes when viewing thumbnails<br>To: "Murray Strome" <wmstrome@yahoo.com><br>Cc: kphotoalbum@kdab.com<br>Received: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 11:20
PM<br><br><div id="yiv1147499191">Are you using a self-compiled version from the svn (now git) or some
pre-packaged version? IIRR a few issues similar to this have been fixed
on the "development" version of KPA. At least some related exif information were fixed.<br>
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Running KPA with strace might show what file is being processed when KPA
crashes. I have also made a patch to add debugging output (filename
being processed) earlier to help in situation like this. Might be worth a
try.<br><br>theBro<br><br><div class="yiv1147499191gmail_quote">--- On <b>Sat, 5/14/11, Joe <i><josephj@main.nc.us></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Joe <josephj@main.nc.us><br>Subject: Re: [KPhotoAlbum] KPhotoAlbum Crashes when viewing thumbnails<br>To: "Tim McCormack" <kpa@brainonfire.net><br>Cc: kphotoalbum@kdab.com<br>Received: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 10:34 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On 05/14/2011 10:19 PM, Tim McCormack wrote:<br>> On 05/14/2011 03:19 PM, Murray Strome wrote:<br>>> I have close to 7,000 photos in the directory/subdirectories where<br>>> I am keeping the photos. Every time I start KPA with those photos, as soon as I<br>>> select "View Thumbnails", it crashes.<br>> Is there any criterion you can do a binary search by? E.g., search by<br>> Content=animals, check thumbnails. If KPA doesn't
crash, add a tag. If it does<br>> crash, try as orthogonal a tag as you can, to try and narrow it down.<br>> <br>> I'm having trouble figuring out how to do a *real* binary search, since KPA<br>> isn't good at negative selection like Content != animal. For this I usually<br>> clear my Tokens, add token X to all Content=animal, then go back and select<br>> Tokens=None. Perhaps someone else can suggest a way of adding Tokens without<br>> going to thumbnail view?<br>> <br>> Anyway, filtering by folder might also be valuable.<br>> <br>> - Tim McCormack<br> _______________________________________________<br>> KPhotoAlbum mailing list<br>> <a href="compose?to=KPhotoAlbum@mail.kdab.com">KPhotoAlbum@mail.kdab.com</a><br>> <a href="http://mail.kdab.com/mailman/listinfo/kphotoalbum" target="_blank">http://mail.kdab.com/mailman/listinfo/kphotoalbum</a><br>> <br>Instead
of filtering, you could just copy a few of your pictures to another
location on your disk and start up KPA pointing at that directory
instead of your main one.<br>If that works, then you could gradually add more of your pictures to the new location or swap out one group for another.<br><br>A
test like this isn't perfect because KPA will build a new database for
these pictures without any of your tags, etc., but it still might tell
you something about what's going on and only requires basic computer
skills to do.<br><br>Doing this will not affect your current KPA
database, so, when you point KPA back to it, all your tags, etc. will
still be there.<br><br>Joe</div></blockquote><blockquote class="yiv1147499191gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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