Disappearing cover images

[Regis Boudin]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 23:39 +0100, Krzysztof Woźniak wrote:
> Dnia wtorek, 28 listopada 2006 23:16, napisałeś:
> Hi
> 
> > I might be able to help. I don't know much about this part of the
> > Tellico source code, but while Robby is in Italy I can try to have a
> > look.
> I'm very glad to hear that :-) I will try to provide any information you need 
> to catch (and squasch) the bug :-)

I can't promise anything as I am quite busy in my day-time job at the
moment, and have some work on another software I package, but I will do
my best.


> > Since I have a collection with about 250 images and have never lost one
> > so far, I think it might be a size problem. Does anyone has a collection
> > file which shows the bug and could make it publicly available, with
> > details on a way to have files disappear ?
> There is some files you may look at:
> 
> http://www.ceti.pl/~wozniakk/tc/Test1.tc
> http://www.ceti.pl/~wozniakk/tc/Test2.tc
> http://www.ceti.pl/~wozniakk/tc/Test3.tc
> 
> It is the same collection in various stages of corruption. I created a few 
> backups after i discovered the problem.
> You may look at the "Pulp Fiction" movie in any of Test files. 
> 1. Full movie information is present but NO IMAGE is shown.
> 2. Next you could try to Update entry from IMDB - still NO IMAGE
> 3. Then edit the entry and CLEAN IMAGE
> 4. next again update from IMDB
> 5. Image is THERE !!!

Thanks for the explanation, that's precisely what I needed to check an
intuition I had : The image file is referenced in the XML file, but not
present in the zip file, which clarifies the problem as "files are not
saved". :)

> Maybe the problem is with some custom fields i added to my database ??

Probably not. AFAIK, tellico is cleanly designed on this side, so there
is no reason at all that additional fields bring this sort of problem.

> Anyway if you want to reproduce this problem, try to move around in database, 
> add some entries, delete some, update a few, then save the database in .tc 
> file (with images). After some saves, you will discover that saved file is 
> SMALLER than original (and BAAAH you lost some images ;-)  )
> 
> I will try to create more isolated test case so you could reproduce this 
> problem. I hope i can help :-)

Hopefully it won't be necessary. :)

BTW, is there a format you would prefer to see patched versions
available ? I can make .deb packages  in addition to the patch if you're
interested.

Regis