Exclamation mark in path prevents thumbnail caching

[StvXXL]

As said, if there is a exclamation mark in a path name, thumbnails for images in this path will be displayed but not written / cached to the tcthumbs.idb

Same behavior for images with an exclamation mark only in the filename.

ru stephan

[Clo]

StvXXL

Hello !

…Same behavior for images with an exclamation mark only in the filename. …

• I renamed two JPEG files adding an exclamation mark in each name,
and their thumb nails are shown alright, like you can see HERE.

 KR
Claude
Clo

[StvXXL]

Hello Clo

images in this path will be displayed but not written / cached to the tcthumbs.idb

Did you proof the caching? I think this behaviour is confirmed, please look here at point 2.

I hope to post this here again was ok.

ru Stephan

[Clo]

2StvXXL

I renamed a third file with “!”, while I displayed the <tcthumbs.idb> in the other panel.
- The file is written¦refreshed, since as soon as I press ENTER to rename, its time is changed to the current time.
- Same for the other DB files (here, they are set in a sub-dir. of the TC directory).
Only the <tcthumbs.frl> file changes its size, though.
- I can't read the binary files contents.

KR
Claude
Clo

[petermad]

2StvXXL

I can confirm your bug

Without having thumbnail View enabled I copied a big image file to a new dir and renamed it to have an ! in the name. I opened the dir with my Thumbnail database files in the opposite panel and swithed to Thumbnail view in the panel with the renamed file - no change in the Thumbnail database files. Then I disabled Thumbnail view, removed the ! from the image name and reenabled Thumbnail view - now the size of my tcthumbs.idb increased and the timestamp changed for both Thumbnail database files.

I tried this several times with different file names and whenever there is an ! in the filename there is no change in the tcthumbs.idb file

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately this bug cannot be fixed because it's a bug in the OLE compound document implementation from Microsoft. The functions to create a new storage object within the compound object fail with error "invalid name" when the name contains an exclamation mark.