Jpegs on WinXP

[Legerdemain]

ACDSee is one program that actually uses the amiga method of looking the file header. I use that instead of windows exploder to view files. Apparently, it was written by at least one former amiga programmer which is one reason it can see IFF's. It can also open up Lha's. It also sees the camera info in the files from my Fuji. (EXIF or whatever it's called.)

Not saying that ACDSee lacks features, but every time I have installed it I've uninstalled it the same day. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago the application suddenly became waaaay to slow for me to even think about using. It takes forever to startup... and considering it is a applicating mainly for viewing pictures I find that somewhat strange, on border of being ridicilous. It's a shame, really, considering the power it has as an application.

[X-ray]

@ Leger

You would get a lot of startup speed increase if you change the default settings. For instance IIRC it is setup by default to refresh all the thumbnails. I also found that later versions of ACDSee were slower, but you can trim the settings to get back a lot of speed.

[Chunder]

Wilse wrote:Is there a setting in XP that will fix this?

Not familiar with XP, but in previous versions of Windows I was able to change the "Registered File Types" options (within Folder Options), and have added "JPEG" as a recognised filetype extension, and all the actions the same as "JPG".

Perhaps this still works - although I daresay that it's hidden somewhere...

[X-ray]

@ Narcea

"...type "ren *.* *.jpg". It's wuick and easy..."

Well I think my syntax was better, because the chances are that Wilse's pictures coming from his Amiga would have NO suffixes at all. Your command there wouldn't rename anything, if that was the case.

@ Chunder

I know what you are getting at:

"Windows needs to know what application created the file, in order to open it: do you want to use the web service for help, or select the program from a list" (just typing from memory, not got exact wording)

Now the only value of this is if Wilse had some kind of suffix on his filenames, for example IFF (which he won't, because they are jpegs)
But let's say for instance the suffix was .jx
When the requester I've quoted comes up, he chooses select program from list, then he selects ACDSee from that list AND CHECKS THE BOX 'always use this program to open that filetype.' From now on, every .jx file will open straight away in ACDSee. It gets a different icon from a jpeg, but it still opens.
From there, he could use 'Browse' in ACDSee, select all (CTR-A) and select format convert from the menu, tick apply to all, and then the problem is solved.

But REN * *.jpg is probably quicker and neater


Edit: I used that command to rename my mp3s when they migrated from the 4000 to the PC...REN * *.mp3

[cecilia]

Legerdemain wrote:

Not saying that ACDSee lacks features, but every time I have installed it I've uninstalled it the same day. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago the application suddenly became waaaay to slow for me to even think about using. It takes forever to startup... and considering it is a applicating mainly for viewing pictures I find that somewhat strange, on border of being ridicilous. It's a shame, really, considering the power it has as an application.

mostly out of laziness, i'm still using ACDSee version 4.
never had a problem like that.

[DethKnight]

I use GQview ~

[Wilse]

@all:

Thank you all kindly.

I know even less about Windows than I do about AmigaDOS, so that was all very informative. :-D

I have to do this quite rarely, so this time I'll just get the git with winXP machine to name them himself.



Cheers guys,

[Waccoon]

Legerdemain:  Not saying that ACDSee lacks features, but every time I have installed it I've uninstalled it the same day. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago the application suddenly became waaaay to slow for me to even think about using. It takes forever to startup... and considering it is a applicating mainly for viewing pictures I find that somewhat strange, on border of being ridicilous. It's a shame, really, considering the power it has as an application.

No kidding!  It's only slow when you go into browser mode, though.  I'm still using version 2.21 and refuse to upgrade because of the way they ruined the responsiveness of the app.

I think it started getting slow because of the thumbnail caching features.  Since version 3.0, the app saves thumbnails in your temp folder and manages an internal database.  You can see hundreds of 0-byte files in your temp folder after using it a few times.  Leaving tons of blank files all over the place and never cleaning them up really shows how bad the code has gotten.  I don't know why developers think it's OK to use the temp folder as an archive or cache!  It's called "temp" for a reason.

Then again, if you think ACDSee is slow, you should try out the thumbnail browser built into Photoshop CS.  It's HORRIBLE!!!  Painfully slow, the GUI stinks, and the image quality is bad, to boot.

I use Win2K, Photoshop 5.5, ACDSee 2.21, and won't upgrade any of them.  Funny how everything seems to work fine, and then they start messing with good formulas and ruin everything!

cecilia:  never had a problem like that.

Wierd.  I've had major delays opening the browser mode with versions 3, 4, and 6 on all systems.

In general, image applications tend to be awful with responsiveness, and are really dumb when it comes to image analysis so data can be saved in an appropriate format.  The image libraries I use with my web scripts, GD and Imagemagick, are pretty sucky.  I should write my own, but I don't know much about C.