Updating old photos (II)

[mmarengo]

A few weeks ago there was a thread about problems in updating old

photos via the "edit image info" function. The problem was that when a

new image was downloaded through the form, the old image was not

replaced. Brian at the time was sick, I think, but it was mentioned

that this was connected with the cashing of the old image on the

system, and the new one would appear after some time.

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I think that the problem is in fact more serious and should be treated

as a bug. The images that I tried to replace are still unchanged after

a couple of weeks. Today I tried to replace again one of them, but

still without luck. If it is a cashing problem, then I think the

expire time is too long (maybe it is reset each time somebody look at

the photo or its thumbnail, as I'm doing to check if it has updated?).

If this is the case, maybe the solution is to force a reset of a

cashed image if a new file is uploaded.

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In any case, as it is now, it is impossible to replace a photo with an

updated one, short of attaching the new version to a comment (not

ideal because it is a waste of space and bandwith, and does not affect

the thumbnail view), or posting it as a new image (interrupting the

comments thread). Or maybe there is a better way, other than the "edit

image info" function, and I'm missing it.

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Example of two photos I tried to update, in case somebody can check

what is going on on the photo database:

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<li><a

href="http://www.photo.net/photo/1073840">http://www.photo.net/photo/1073840</a>

<li><a

href="http://www.photo.net/photo/1188757">http://www.photo.net/photo/1188757</a>

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Thanks in advance for any help!

[alberto.conde]

Quite agree with you that this is a new bug. I have used this feature in the past a few times with immediate positive reaction from the site displaying the new version. I am trying to do so to-day to no avail at all. The new version won't show up.<p>So, Massimo, no help from me, but a confirmation of your problem and an additional request for help!

[mmarengo]

Alberto, yes, I was also able to do the update succesfully a few months ago... But now it does not appear to work anymore. I'm wondering if Brian can help us a little with this...

[marcelosoriarodriguez]

I have the same problem. Actually, I have noticed that the system somehow replaces the image size information of the old version of the picture you are trying to update, but keeps the old image's content. So, when you display the "updated" image, you see a distorted version of your old picture. It has happened twice to me, you can see the effect of the distortion quite clearly in this one:

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<a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/557667&size=lg">http://www.photo.net/photo/557667&size=lg</a>

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If you look at the borders of the cup, specially the handle, you will notice there's something wrong with it! And it happens that the version that I tried to upload had a different size than the original one... I cannot see this effect in your pictures, Massimo, so I guess the "updated" versions did have the same size as the originals...

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I hope somebody in a position to do something about it reads this! :)

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Regards,

[bobatkins]

Check the other thread here on this topic. Brian thinks it's a caching problem and he's working on it.

[marcelosoriarodriguez]

This is great! I just checked today one of my pictures affected by this problem and I saw that the problem was corrected and the picture I updated is now correctly displaying the good version!

 

Thank you very much, I know how busy all of you "supporting staff" at photo.net are, and I am very grateful for such a quick fix.

 

Best regards,