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Randall J. Paske

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  1. Some new comic book titles have been added that don't follow capitalization standards:

    Behind The Line
    Cheech And Chong’s Chronicles: A Brief History of Weed
    Learning To Use Energy
    Marvel-Verse: Ant-Man And The Wasp
    Marvel-Verse: Guardians Of The Galaxy
    Marvel-Verse: Jane Foster The Mighty Thor

    I would normally expect these to be:

    Behind the Line
    Cheech and Chong’s Chronicles: A Brief History of Weed
    Learning to Use Energy
    Marvel-Verse: Ant-Man and the Wasp
    Marvel-Verse: Guardians of the Galaxy
    Marvel-Verse: Jane Foster the Mighty Thor

    I'd also expect a comma after "Foster" in that last title, but I haven't seen the indicia.

     

  2. I've seen this for other titles from Avalon, as well as GBP wrongly shown for "Fleetway Quality" publications that were published in the 1980s in the U.S. (for an example, see Judge Dredd (Vol. 2)). I've submitted fixes sometimes, but I'm not sure how well they've stuck; nor have I gone looking for mismatches on titles I don't own any copies of.

     

  3. Thanks. I'm not sure at this point how my Pictures folder and the location specified for the folder got so screwed up, but I've reset it to use the default location and I'm now in the process of consolidating different versions of the folder to that location. Thumbnails and pictures are working as they should.

  4. OK, so here's what happens. I go to a title that I haven't visited since upgrading my hard drive. No images are loaded.

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    No images will load at all, until I select a row. Then the thumbnail shows up. If I click the thumbnail, it shows the full-size image. The image at the top remains the generic image for the publisher.

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    If I leave the title and then come back, the image at the top changes to the one I've loaded.

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    So ComicBase can find my pictures, but it will not do so until I select a row in the grid. Obviously, I would prefer that they show up without my having to take that action.

  5. It's a new WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB SATA III internal drive. I don't know what all of that means, but I had it installed at a local shop and I'm reading it off the product box. I don't know how to check the firmware version. (I don't see anything clearly labeled Firmware Version in Device Manager.) Windows says the drivers are up to date. Windows Update is supposed to check for updates weekly.

    I'm not having issues with any other software or applications. A thumbnail comes up fast when I select a row, but no thumbnails are shown for rows I haven't specifically selected.

  6. On 2/17/2023 at 6:30 PM, Randall J. Paske said:

    But the thumbnails themselves are still rather slow to load, for some reason. They don't seem to load until I actually select a row. And the pictures up by the titles aren't loading, either, unless I have selected the row that contains the same picture and then left the title and returned.

    As I mentioned, I do have "Automatically download larger pictures when viewing items" selected.

    This part is still happening. Has anyone else experienced this?

  7. I suggest adding a Credits field for Translation and Dialogue. Such credits can arguably go in the Writer field, but also arguably don't really belong there. This field would be useful for translated manga, manhwa, and European comics (including many Disney comics with translated stories).

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  8. My ComicBase Mobile app seems to be tied to a blank database and won't let go of it.

    Earlier, I could switch to my actual database in the drop-down, but it didn't seem to actually switch. Or if it did switch, it still wasn't showing me which issues I own when I went to a given title.

    I only have one database (the correct one) listed under Backups on the ComicBase website.

    My profile on the website showed two databases earlier, but it wouldn't let me select the erroneous one for deletion. So then I deleted the good one and they both disappeared. Then I sent a new backup to the cloud. Now it only shows that one.

    I uninstalled and reinstalled the Mobile app. It appears to see the new backup I just saved (and only that one), but It still isn't finding my comics when I search.  The name, date. valuations, and numbers of items on the splash page are correct, but when I search titles, it's not showing me which issues I own.

    I went to a small convention this afternoon, and this made hunting a bit difficult. Is there a "phantom" blank database screwing up my account somewhere, or is this a glitch in the Mobile app? What can I do to fix it?

  9. It was a location problem. The pictures are on my SSD drive, and I don't have any other drives connected. But I didn't have ComicBase pointing to the right folder location. So, having changed that, thumbnails are now expanding to the larger images.

    But the thumbnails themselves are still rather slow to load, for some reason. They don't seem to load until I actually select a row. And the pictures up by the titles aren't loading, either, unless I have selected the row that contains the same picture and then left the title and returned.

    As I mentioned, I do have "Automatically download larger pictures when viewing items" selected.

  10. I had to replace my hard drive (I now have an SSD) and do a new installation of my operating system. I'm basically on a new system in an old shell.

    I installed a fresh version of ComicBase and copied my Pictures folder, database backups, and log files from my old drive. Things seem to be working fine except for problems with cover images. The thumbnails frequently are not expanding to larger versions when selected, and often the thumbnails don't load at all, or load very slowly.

    I have "Automatically download larger pictures when viewing items" selected.

    What might the problem be?

     

  11. On 2/10/2023 at 10:48 AM, Steven L. Dasinger said:

    Delete 1-V36.jpg and 1-V37.jpg

    From: Pictures\D\Dynamite\Vampirella (7th Series)
    (not sure where, if anywhere, these actually belong)


    The items formerly listed as #1/V36 and #1/V37 were actually variants of #2. I wrote to Support and suggested they be moved to #2. The computer on which I use ComicBase is in the shop right now, so I can't check on whether they were added to #2, but your list confirms that they were removed from #1.

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