Detailed View, some column info missing

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Detailed View, some column info missing

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I really like this program. I'm mere seconds away from purchasing the full version, but two things keep me from making the plunge. The first is that the lite version has a singular habit of crashing when the right-hand column is selected when in "dual view" and I turn off "dual view". Not every time, but often enough to be annoying. Its fine when the left column is "active", but not when the right column is. I've uninstalled & re-installed twice, by the way. Still does it about 3 out of every 10 times.

2d issue is the subject of this post. When browsing picture files in detailed view with "Dimensions" as a selected column, some of the files show no information in that column. A "refresh" (Ctrl-R) does nothing to bring up the missing info, and its not limited to a single folder: many show the same behaviour. Viewing the same folders in Windows Explorer show the dimensions of every picture file in that folder - why doesn't xplorer2?

I'm running Windows XP Media Center Edition with SP2 on a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 with 2GB RAM, if that helps.

Anyone else seen behaviour like this?
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Welcome to the board, GullyF !

I have not seen either behavior in the Pro version (which I use almost exclusively).
When I tested the Lite version to try and find similar behavior, I could not:
No crashes ever toggling between dual and single pane view styles.
All my pics (that I checked) show 'dimensions' properly when that column is displayed.  :shrug:

This with Lite v1.7.1.4 on XP/sp3; but I have never seen the behavior you describe on earlier versions.

Is there any pattern to which files don't display 'dimensions'?
Likewise, any pattern for the crashes?
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what sort of files do you expect to see dimensions for? Do you see this information in windows expoorer?
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Post by GullyF »

Thanks for the welcome, fgagnon!

Can you tell me where I might obtain the Lite v1.7.1.4 that you refer to? The only version I can find for download is v1.7.0.5. That might be the problem: I've got an older version.

As for the crash, I've tested it extensively since posting above. It seems to only occur when the one of the two directories originally displayed is a subdirectory of the other. For example, Directory "Main documents" has subdirectories "Docs A" and "Docs B". If "Docs A" is the left pane when in Dual View and "Main Documents" is the right pane, and I turn off Dual View - that's when it goes wonky. Not all the time, of course, as I said.

On the dimension issue, this happens exclusively with wallpaper files which have established dimensions (1024x768, 1280x1024, 160x1200, etc). Also, there are usually more than say, 50 files in the directory. Less than that number, all the dimensions usually show.

nikos, thanks for the response. As above, I expect to see the dimensions for any picture type file (jpg, bmp, gif, png) when I've selected the "Dimensions" column while in Details view. And I do see this information in Windows Explorer.
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A link to Lite v1.7.1.4 was posted by nikos only last Friday, here.
You should try it, but I expect it won't make any difference.

I tried some more to recreate your crashes, this time with child/parent folder pane arrangement as you described; but still cannot duplicate the issue. :?

As for 'dimensions' not showing, to get that info, requires opening the files, so it won't be instantaneous in large folders, but it will show after a bit.  
FWIW, I consider under 100 files in a folder to be small, and don't consider it large unless I have more than 500...  and I have many large folders. ;)

PS - @ wallpaper files - any of a number of extensions can be used as wallpaper.  Is there a particular file extension that is not showing 'dimensions' for you?
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Post by GullyF »

Got the download, thanks. Will install right after I post this.

I must be doing something right... or perhaps this is just like what happens when you show the IT guy how your computer breaks - only it'll never do it when he's watching.    :)  I've only got it to crash once in the past 54 attempts with the dual pane shut down.

All my wallpaper files are jpg. An example of the number of missing dimension information in Details View: In a directory of 3225 items, 92 show up without dimensions. There is nothing unique that links those that do not show the information - a random sampling of all files in the folder shows various dimensions, horizontal/vertical bit rate, date modified... all have 24 bit depth.

I'm rather puzzled, of course, and any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

One further question, though: does the "save folder settings" available in the Pro version keep the columns once set? That might be the answer, also.
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Is it always the same files that do not show 'dimensions'?  
Do these files show correctly in the QV pane?
If you copy a few of them into a directory by themselves, do the 'dimensions' show up there?

side note: many of the column information parameters take a long time to display. Especially things like bit rate. And in a folder of 3000+ files, it will take a while to fetch all the data.  Further, x2 can become seeming unresponsive if you sort on one of the slow-to-fetch parameters.  :o  
The quickest parameters for x2 to fetch and display (or sort by, whether or not displayed) are the 'stock' items, designated by [S] following the parameter name.  

re: Save folder setting -
That feature is used to save view settings (including columns, and sorting) on a folder-by-folder basis (not globally).  It is persistent for a given folder, so you can change you view temporarily, so when you refresh, the saved preferences are restored for that folder.
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Post by GullyF »

Oddly enough, the upgrade seems to have solved the problems. I uninstalled the previous version, rebooted, then installed Lite v1.7.1.4. No crashes so far, and all columns display the proper information for all files.  :D



Now, if the program only had an "Undo" button...
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