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 4/27/2008 10:05 AM
 
Hello again :)

One more "nice to have" feature idea. Situation:

I have some (let's say ~1000) images stored on HDD (F://some-dir/DVD-1 draft/Dir1/..files..). I sort them, add tags / comments etc. After some time some of the files are moved to DVD (D://Dir1/...files...) and deleted from HDD.
It would be nice to have possibility to change original location of selected thumbnails (from "D://some-dir/DVD-1 draft" to "D://").

Of course, we can do this by editing *.mdb file, but that could be not so comfortable for some users :)

Guoda



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 4/27/2008 11:32 AM
 

Hi,

I've added this into my list, I will try to implement this as part of a bigger feature related to working with a file server/shared folder, where every machine on the network can see the files on differant locations /mapped drives.

Thanks again,

Asaf.

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 5/23/2008 5:54 AM
 

Can we open the .mdb file in Access to view the table?  Could we move image files and edit the

table to then find the moved files?

Where is the Database file located and whats its name if it is "editable"?

COOL!!!!!

Hugo   Atlanta, GA

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 5/23/2008 6:20 AM
 

Sure,

You can edit the table if you'd like to, it has a really straight forward structure.

The default location of the index is in C:\Documents and Settings\i025049\Local Settings\Application Data\MyPhotoIndex\Data,

The db contains the following tables:

ImageCategories - holds the list of image categories.

Images - Holds all image data like path, tags and comments.

ImageTags - Holds all tag information like tag name, description and icon.

IndexInfo - some technical information of the index.

SavedQueries - Holds the saved queries data.

What you are looking for is the 'images' table, please don't forget to backup the file before editing it.

There is also the possibility to use the application's API (but that is a little more complex), I hope to publish some samples soon to show how the core component of MyPhotoIndex can be reused to build some useful image indexing utilities.

Regards,

Asaf.

 

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 5/25/2008 4:37 AM
 
The only problem -- if you have really lots of images (e.g., 20000), MS Access can't deal with the table size :) It just (sometimes) hangs up, sometimes it gives some error messages about being unable to lock the file, sometimes "something" even more interesting.
Changing location for ~5000 images was OK, trying to do this for 20000, then -- for 10000 failed (one time DB was corrupted, so DO make backup before experimenting). The limit of "change is possible" / "impossible" is somewhere between 5000 - 10000 images, don't know the exact number. Maybe it depends on hardware configuration.
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