image converter question

[quack]

Lately, I'd noticed that image converter wasn't putting my images in. I hadn't had a problem before.

Then I noticed that what it was doing was labeling the picture DSC00001 and then replacing that picture with whatever picture I asked for next. I can image convert a whole mess of them, and it keeps doing this.

I hadn't noticed this problem before when I had first purchased it. Is it because I have some others labelled DSC00008 and such? And nothing beneath it?

Very annoying problem. I would just transfer the entire jpeg (I use Acid Image), but I liked how image converter would shrink the image automatically, so I wouldn't have to do it manually. After all, didn't want 1.5 MB images everytime.

[GSC3D]

I have never experienced that problem. But then Ive only tried using it to convert video for the clie.

Anyone know why when I use the same image converter program with some MOV files, it strips off the audio in the output file?

I miss my audio.

[n2ifp]

Originally posted by quack
Lately, I'd noticed that image converter wasn't putting my images in. I hadn't had a problem before.

Then I noticed that what it was doing was labeling the picture DSC00001 and then replacing that picture with whatever picture I asked for next. I can image convert a whole mess of them, and it keeps doing this.

I hadn't noticed this problem before when I had first purchased it. Is it because I have some others labelled DSC00008 and such? And nothing beneath it?

Very annoying problem. I would just transfer the entire jpeg (I use Acid Image), but I liked how image converter would shrink the image automatically, so I wouldn't have to do it manually. After all, didn't want 1.5 MB images everytime.

I haven't found an answer yet either, everything gets transfered as DSC00001, so it just keeps over writting itself. Several have complained of this :confused:

[Unregistered]

We need to find an answer to this. It is really making me mad!!

[Unregistered]

I got around this issue by deleting the DSC00001 file. Let me know if it works for you.

[Unregistered]

Doesn't work for me. Just keeps doing the same thing.

[senhwei]

I have exactly the same problem as well !

senhwei

[nmincone]

Same here, I just down sample them with another app on the PC side then just manually rename and copy them to the Clie. Not very elegant but gets the job done for now.

[bij]

this is a horrible problem, thx for pointing it out!

[Unregistered]

are you guys using acid image?

[chilly66]

There I am registered now.I asked about anyone using acid image. I noticed that it puts a couple of files on the same folder as the saved images from the converter. I had to do a hard reset.When I got it going again I didn't install acid image and now I can convert as many images as I want. I don't know if it was acid image or just something else when I did the hard reset.

[edreese]

I had the same problem until I deleted acid image. Now it works fine.

[chilly66]

Did anyone else try removing acid image to see if that is the problem?

[rcoffman]

I e-mailed Red Mercury abiout this problem and here is the response.

This is strange. We weren't aware of the problem - you are the first to notify us about it!! :)

We have reproduced the problem.

Here is the deal:

Image Converter, as you know, renames images sequentially as they are copied over to the memory stick (this in itself is quite a bummer, but that's the way it works).

If there are nothing but other sequentially-named image files in that directory, everything works fine. But, if there is a filename with 8 characters and a 3 character extension, like "BREAK_ME.TXT" in that directory, Image Converter gets confused and copies all of your images to DSC00001.JPG instead of naming them sequentially.

AcidImage innocently saves its thumbnail cache there as AIThumbD.thm and AIThumbI.thm, but for some reason, this confuses the hell out of Image Converter.

Deleting AcidImage from your Clie won't fix the problem - you have to delete the thumbnail cache files from that directory. You can prevent the thumnail files from coming back by setting your thumbnail preferences to save "never".

Now, that's a bummer of a workaround - I have an email into Sony about this to see if they have any suggestions or updates to that application.

Thanks for the information,

[Badandy]

Quite a response!

[quan]

I wonder if Red Mercury could simply change the software so that the thumbnail file gets stored in a different folder. This should solve the problem. I wouldn't think it should be hard to program, but what the heck do I know.

[quan]

Now that I think about it, I wonder if I could simply move the file everytime I used the image converter and then moved it back after I'm done?

I might try that when I get home.

[redmercury]

Hey y'all -

Just thought I'd poke in here to help figure this out...

As you can see from the earlier post from Randy, we were able to reproduce this thing with Image Converter.

quan had a good idea for a workaround (he recommends moving the AcidImage thumbnail files while working with Image Converter), though you don't even have to move the thumbnail files, just rename them so that the filename is slightly shorter. If the first part of the filename is 7 or fewer characters, Image Converter doesn't get confused.

For example, before using Image Converter, rename the AcidImage thumbnails to "IThumbI.thm" and "IThumbD.thm" (that is, just delete the "A" at the beginning of each filename).

After transferring the files, put the "A" back at the beginning of each thumbnail filename.

Sony now has this bug listed in their bug database, but in the mean time we're trying to figure out a better workaround. The best solution is to just drag-and-drop pictures directly to the card without using Image Converter at all (this has the happy side effect of retaining your image filenames).

Another workaround would be to use Image Converter to save files to a local directory on the desktop (tell it to save to Drive C: for example), then drag and drop the local files to the memory stick.

Scott
Red Mercury, LLC

[redmercury]

Check out AI 2.5r6
http://red-mercury.com/aibe.html

It will use a different filename for the thumbs in that directory now. Delete the old thumbnail database files AIThumbI.thm and AIThumbD.thm from that directory.

The new thumbnail database will be saved as AIThmI.thm and AIThmD.thm in that directory only, to work around this problem with Image Converter.

Have fun,
Scott

[rcoffman]

Thanks for the support RM, Your GREAT!

[ankh]

Sounds like using AcidImage and a memory stick will let me move images to the Clie SJ30.

Now -- how can I, once on the SJ30, edit/annotate an image and get it back OUT in a useful form?

Mac OSX, though that probably doesn't make any difference. Except that from the Mac I can write most any file format -- if anyone can tell me a file format that will work with a graphics editor on the Clie.

So far I'm finding lots of viewers, and lots of paint programs, but no real tools for editing an existing graphics file imported and then exporting the changed file.

[seraphim_9:11]

I've been using image convertor for some time and havent come up against this yet ... the problem I had was that when trying to load an MPEG, it told me that there wasnt enough space on the MS. The MPEG was 5.54 MB and the space in the Memory stick was 12 MB. It didnt even load the entire MPEG. Now will someone tell me why or how this could happen ???