Previews behaving strange

[vAfotoriporter]

I experienced today that some of the previews don't load in the contact sheet and some load in teribly low resolution. Even when zooming in it keeps enlarging this low res pixel maze. Neither refresh, nor closing and reopening the contact sheet helps this issue.
The files vied are CR2 files and open up flawlessly in IrfanView allowing me to suppose the problem is not with the image files.

[Kirk Baker]

I experienced today that some of the previews don't load in the contact sheet and some load in teribly low resolution. Even when zooming in it keeps enlarging this low res pixel maze. Neither refresh, nor closing and reopening the contact sheet helps this issue.
The files vied are CR2 files and open up flawlessly in IrfanView allowing me to suppose the problem is not with the image files.

What OS and what version of PM are you running?

-Kirk

[vAfotoriporter]

Sorry I missed to tell that. This keeps happening on my XP netbook with PM beta 7.

It may be some memory or cache thing as I never put this much images (aprox 1-2000 in one contact sheet) onto it and never had experienced anything similar.

Cross checking the images on the Mac is in progress but the copy takes some time...

[vAfotoriporter]

I also tired to quit and restart PM but situation is the same: some image previews display fine but most of them in very low res.

[Kirk Baker]

I also tired to quit and restart PM but situation is the same: some image previews display fine but most of them in very low res.

The photos that don't fully load, do they have red titles for their filenames?

-Kirk

[vAfotoriporter]

I also tired to quit and restart PM but situation is the same: some image previews display fine but most of them in very low res.

The photos that don't fully load, do they have red titles for their filenames?

-Kirk

No red titles, nothing unusual except the previews dont load with a useful quality. It seems PM tries to use the thumbnail images for the preview and even for the zoomed in images as well.

[vAfotoriporter]

I tried to extract the embedded images from the CR2 files and open them in a new contact sheet with the same PM and machine I experience preview problems. With the JPGs there are filenames in red and their preview (and thumbnail) doesn't appear at all.
What does it mean and how it relates to the initial problem of not showing RAW previews in normal res?

It still appears that RAW files show a low res thumb and preview but no red filename. Only with the JPGs exported from RAW.

[vAfotoriporter]

At first glance beta 8 seems to lack the above issue, will report if I find it again.

[vAfotoriporter]

I'm mistaken. It still keeps happening on my Win netbook. Some thumbnails dont show nor preview loads. Some thumbs and previews do load correctly some previews load a teribly low res....maybe the thumbnail??
I tried restarting PM beta8, reloading the contact sheet, tried with PM 4.5.4 all behave the same.
What can cause this?

[Kirk Baker]

I'm mistaken. It still keeps happening on my Win netbook. Some thumbnails dont show nor preview loads. Some thumbs and previews do load correctly some previews load a teribly low res....maybe the thumbnail??
I tried restarting PM beta8, reloading the contact sheet, tried with PM 4.5.4 all behave the same.
What can cause this?

I don't know.  As far as I know this issue is unique to your system.  What happens if you move all of the photos that render correctly into a different folder and then browse the remaining images?  Do they render then?  What happens if you take a single image that won't render and move it to a folder by itself and then browse that folder?  Does it render then?

-Kirk

[vAfotoriporter]

I'm mistaken. It still keeps happening on my Win netbook. Some thumbnails dont show nor preview loads. Some thumbs and previews do load correctly some previews load a teribly low res....maybe the thumbnail??
I tried restarting PM beta8, reloading the contact sheet, tried with PM 4.5.4 all behave the same.
What can cause this?

I don't know.  As far as I know this issue is unique to your system.  What happens if you move all of the photos that render correctly into a different folder and then browse the remaining images?  Do they render then?  What happens if you take a single image that won't render and move it to a folder by itself and then browse that folder?  Does it render then?

-Kirk

I'll try it. If I quit and restart PM it renders images it previously did not. For me it seems more like a memory like issue. Can previews be too much for PM? Can any buffer or etc be filled of previews?
Quit and restart seems to solve the issue but slows down business dealing images.

[Kirk Baker]

I'm mistaken. It still keeps happening on my Win netbook. Some thumbnails dont show nor preview loads. Some thumbs and previews do load correctly some previews load a teribly low res....maybe the thumbnail??
I tried restarting PM beta8, reloading the contact sheet, tried with PM 4.5.4 all behave the same.
What can cause this?

I don't know.  As far as I know this issue is unique to your system.  What happens if you move all of the photos that render correctly into a different folder and then browse the remaining images?  Do they render then?  What happens if you take a single image that won't render and move it to a folder by itself and then browse that folder?  Does it render then?

-Kirk

I'll try it. If I quit and restart PM it renders images it previously did not. For me it seems more like a memory like issue. Can previews be too much for PM? Can any buffer or etc be filled of previews?
Quit and restart seems to solve the issue but slows down business dealing images.

What are your Caching settings (Preferences->Caching tab)?

-Kirk