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[Andreas Nyback <andreas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

2011-09-25 00:45, Andreas Nyback skrev:
> Some problems came up when running latest rpd. Using the gentoo ebuild in gentoo bugzilla that i have updated myself to install rpd 4.1. 
> Just to ask if this is how it behaves for you as for me.
>
> * Selected folder trouble
> I had unintentionally selected my home folder as the path to download
> from in the preferences, recursive mode. This made rpd scan all folders
> under my home folder and it found like 1500 files it displayed icons for
> to download. But once it displayed them it was hard to change folder to
> something else in the preferences. Rpd got very busy and unresponsive.
> If I killed rpd and started it again it was at once displaying the icons
> for the 1500 media files and getting unresponsive.
> After a few tries to quickly open preferences and instead select
> "desktop" in the pull down list for folders to download from I could get
> back control over rpd and then go in and select the sub folder I was
> actually interested in.
> At first I had tried to leave rpd running overnight to see if it would
> finish what it was doing with the 1500 files and I would get a
> responsive GUI again but also leaving it running overnight did not help.
> It was taking a big load on the CPU continuously and slowly increasing
> its memory usage. My laptop was otherwise responsive but not rpd.
>
> * Thumbnails
> I never see thumbnails until I have clicked "download" with the default
> icons selected, and it starts to download files. For each file
> downloaded the thumbnail will show up as it progresses.
> Should it not be so that you see the thumbnails at once when the files
> are listed, before you start the actual download? so you see what it is
> that you will download.
>
> * Select files
> I can click "check all" and "uncheck all". After uncheck all you can
> drag your mouse to frame and select several icons at once. Can I do
> "check selection" to select all the files I framed with the mouse? (This
> is also where it would be nice to see the thumbnails and not just
> default icons.)
>
> * Hang
> When I download there is always some files where rapid just hangs. The
> default icon for that file is not thumb-nailed and it just sits there
> forever. The file is fine for all other application but RPD.
> Below is an strace on downloading one troubling image file. Don't know
> if it says anything informative.
> Any other way to trace why it hangs?
> Next is for me to look in the code. But I don't know python 
Disabling thumbnails and no more hangs.Though disabling it was a little
buggy.
I went into preferences and disabled thumbnails.
closed preferences and started a download, thumbnails where still
created for each file as it was downloaded. And hang on the same places.
I restarted rapid and started the same download. Still thumbnails.
Went into preferences, confirmed that yes thumbnails is not selected.
restarted rapid. started a download, and now suddenly thumbnails was not
created as it progressed in the download, and it did not stop on the
troubling files anymore.


> And again thanks for creating rapid photo downloader. Its the only tool
> of its kind.
>
> Kindly
> /Andreas
>
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