Auto-Cover-Thumbnail feature acting up

[OtherEric]

It seems that the system is not creating thumbnails of new books correctly right now.  At least once in the past I fixed a similar problem by deleting and reuploading the book that seemed to be jamming the system, so I tried again with the last couple books I uploaded.  It does not seem to have worked this time.  

[OtherEric]

And even as I typed that, it seems to be working again, at least partly.  At this point I've got not a clue.

[Yoc]

lol, as I say to those that can't download - 'give it a couple days and maybe it sorts itself.'

[Yoc]

Staunton had a 'thumb.db' file in his upload which also buggered the AutoCoverThumbnail feature as well.

[Yoc]

Now many of the new files aren't getting auto cover thumbs.  I've checked a few and they seem just fine so I suspect the code for the feature is needing a look at.
Nobody panic if they don't see a thumbnail appear, thanks.

-Yoc

[OtherEric]

I saw a thumbnail was taking a visible time to load in.  I deleted the file and all the others popped in instantly.  So now to figure what to do with that book.

It's a one page Buster Brown Sunday strip.  That's 6MB for one page.

[OtherEric]

And here's my fix:  I took the download of the file, added a smaller "preview" version of the page so it's now two pages with the first one being a sane size, and reuploaded that where the original file- not the updated version- was.

So file is still there for people to get, the thumbnails on the new books are working, and I'm calling it good for tonight unless somebody else has a though.

[Yoc]

Interesting!
I had noticed that some of the others that had failed were very large first scans as well.
Thanks for your investigative work there Eric.

[OtherEric]

Now I need to fix the recent Captain Flight 5 upload, which will be harder because rangerhouse put in several screenshots.  I wish I knew a faster way to do this.

We can take very large cover scans just fine.  But we can't really deal with INSANE cover scans.

[Geo (RIP)]

Do we have a size where it starts to act up on this Eric? We could then post up about it for the scanners we have here at least.

Geo

[OtherEric]

Not sure, exactly.  The problem ones I've seen have all been over 4000 across, though.

[Geo (RIP)]

Not sure, exactly.  The problem ones I've seen have all been over 4000 across, though.

Hmmm, I just approved a new book, it's front cover was 1280x1867, 1 meg and no front cover preview, rar file type. I'm thinking maybe the size of the file has something to do with it too, that was why I was asking. By the way Captain Flight #5 is the last one with a front cover preview, all those added after that don't have a preview either.

Geo

[Yoc]

It looks like the Capt Flight 5 cover is clogging the works.

[OtherEric]

I'm uploading a corrected file as I type, Yoc.  This time I just included a small cover as the first file, so the large cover is still available.

Rangerhouse, I apologize for losing your thumbnails in the process, as well as your download count.  I DID replace the 10 of 10 vote the book got, though.

[Yoc]

Thanks Eric.
RH, could you please include a smaller first cover as well as your large cover as file 2?
We'd appreciate it.