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From: "John Cardinal" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Journal report missing some images
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 08:06:48 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20060501070250.19100.qmail@web25003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>


G Nelson wrote:
> Dear John, Paul and Linda
> Thanks for your replies, but all 25 images or so for this
> Journal of 155 people are in exactly the same JPEG format -
> it is just three of them are simply not ending up in the
> "links" list of photos.
>
> I don't know if relevant but I used TMG Utility to do a
> bulk width reduction for the Journal photos, but quite a few
> of the photos were still large size in the report. I worked
> it out that this was because I was simply adding photos to
> the TMG project from wherever they were on my computer.
> However I realised (it is obvious to me now) that John's TMG
> Utility programme needed them all in one folder to do a bulk
> width reduction. I therefore deleted the 10 or so photos that
> had pathways to other places on my computer and re-added
> exact duplicates of these photos to the TMG Output folder of
> photos and then re-added them to my TMG project from this
> folder. Unless I am missing something, I am sure these 3
> missing photos are all correctly in that TMG Output folder as
> JPEG's (like all the others that are adding to the Journal).
>
> Could it be something specific to individuals like a
> "permit/ignore" exhibit toggle that may be inadvertently on.
> The Journal is 7 generations and one photo is missing from
> generation 4 and two from generation 6.

Gary,

I don't have any idea why the journal report isn't showing all the images so
I won't comment on that.

TMG Utility will _read_ exhibit files wherever they appear on your hard
drive. When it _writes_ new images, such as when you use it to modify the
image sizes, it only writes to a single output folder. When it writes
exhibit files, it tries to avoid the situation where the input files are
replaced by the output files so that the originals remain available as well
as the modified versions.

If you want the resized images to replace the originals, you should make a
copy of all your exhibits first, then use TMG Utility to make the resized
versions, and then move each resized image to the location of the original
it replaces. If you have a lot of images and they are spread all over, that
will take some time.

The TMG Utility resize feature was designed to work with Second Site; Second
Site supports an "Alternate Image Folder"; Second Site looks in that folder
first for a resized version of an image exhibit and checks the official
location second. That allows Second Site users to resize a subset of their
image exhibits without having to change the image TMG uses. The TMG
Utility/Second Site approach can be used to leave a higher resolution image
for use in TMG reports and create a lower resolution image for the web site.
For printed reports, a higher resolution image is usually better, whereas a
high resolution image is usually not appropriate for a web site.

John


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