Zoombrowser - bugs! - anyone use Linux tools?

Colin Ramsay said:

I've heard someone talk about using GIMP under Linux - excellent
graphics manipulation package, it was said, and free, of course.
Anyone know of a decent source of info on Linux tools, including a
downloader?

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Colin Ramsay said:

Hi all,

Well, I have my G2, it's great (though I've only had 1 day playing
with it, and that was indoors). I've spent more time with the
software than the hardware, sadly.

Basically, Zoomrowser EX just wouldn't download at all. Thumbnails
came up (in an impressively short time) but any attempt to download
the pictures met with an error message. It was as if the problem
was actually with the database part, it hadn't created the "My
Database" and this seemed to be a problem - like it had no write
permissions. I downloaded the latest TWAIN driver from the Canon
site (v3.9.0) but that didn't help. I forget the details now, we
gave up, downloaded Breeze Downloader (and BreezeBrowser) and got
the pictures off that way. At least I have a way of getting the
pictures off. But if I'm not careful I'll leave the pictures in an
electronic heap just like I used to do with my real photos! I need
to get sorted with a good database package which is robust and
integrates well with some backup utility.

What do people do for backups? I'm considering buying a second
hard disk and mirroring the data on to that. I have a CD writer,
in the meantime.

Oh, I'm running Win98SE on a 650M Athlon machine.

I've heard someone talk about using GIMP under Linux - excellent
graphics manipulation package, it was said, and free, of course.
Anyone know of a decent source of info on Linux tools, including a
downloader?

Cheers

Colin

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Colin Ramsay said:

What do people do for backups? I'm considering buying a second
hard disk and mirroring the data on to that. I have a CD writer,
in the meantime.

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Martin Eager said:

Colin Ramsay said:

What do people do for backups? I'm considering buying a second
hard disk and mirroring the data on to that. I have a CD writer,
in the meantime.

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Both.

Basically I don't see either CDR or hard disk as being totally
reliable media. We all know that hard disks can fail and CDRs
aren't as long-lived or invulnerable to damage as the manufacturers
would have us believe.

At the moment I'm storing all my photos on a secondary 40 GB hard
disk plus also archived on CD. I'm not sure what will happen when I
fill a whole 40 GB hard disk with photos, I'll cross that bridge
when I come to it. Since hard disks are getting constantly larger
and prices lower, I figure that the cost of an 80 GB or 100 GB hard
disk won't be that high in six months time.

Cheers
Martin
http://photos.runic.com

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Colin Ramsay said:

Hi Martin,

Do you use any archival software, or do you just do your archiving
on an ad-hoc basis?

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Martin Eager said:

Colin Ramsay said:

Hi Martin,

Do you use any archival software, or do you just do your archiving
on an ad-hoc basis?

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Very ad-hoc. I just note down the last IMG number that I archived
and then when I have a further 700 MB of RAW and/or JPEG images I
burn another CD. I keep all images taken since the last CD burn in
a separate folder (called 'recent') until I'm ready to burn a new
CD. Once I've archived them to CD, I usually sort the photos on my
hard disk into folders grouped by subject type.

I should probably spend some time to make thumbnails and an HTML
index for each archive and I'm currently looking at using
Breezebrowser to do this.

Cheers
Martin
http://photos.runic.com

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