[APBeta] 2.3a7 Repairing damaged image database

[Paul Rodman]

Tim,

If you send me a copy of the “broken” folder, I will attempt to reproduce the issue here. If it’s too big, perhaps you could use Dropbox or similar.

Paul R.


> On Dec 10, 2016, at 11:29 PM, Tim Long <Tim at tigranetworks.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Further to this, the repair never completes and the message comes back each time I start the program.
>  
> I have worked around it by simply renaming the Images folder and letting AP create a new one. Since all but 3 of the images are downloads from SDSS (etc) I can just re-download them. I’ve retained the ‘broken’ images folder in case it is needed for further analysis.
>  
> --Tim
>  
>  
> From: Tim Long 
> Sent: 10 December 2016 10:36
> To: 'AstroPlanner Beta Testers' <apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net <mailto:apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net>>
> Subject: 2.3a7 Repairing damaged image database
>  
> I think something odd is going on with images. The last few times I ran the program I’ve received a message along the lines of “Duplicate images detected… delete them?” and I’ve said “yes” to clean up.
>  
> Now today, I get a dialog titled “Repairing damaged image database”.
> <image001.jpg>
>  
> It’s been going for about 20 minutes now. I don’t have _that_ many images in my database. At most, I have 3 images for each Messier object, so around 300. The rest of the program is still responsive.
>  
> Best regards,
> Tim Long
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