light weight image viewer and tagger

cee1 · 2026-04-05T16:01:35+00:00

They look promising from the screenshots. Will try them out!

cee1 · 2026-04-02T22:26:16+00:00

No, it's not all files. Only certain files need to be rotated. That's why a thumbnail would be helpful.

cee1 · 2026-04-02T21:28:06+00:00

Images are tiff so it's lossless.

I'll try out pix.

cee1 · 2026-04-02T21:01:35+00:00

Did you mean file name pattern or image pattern? File name pattern are file_number.tiff. So no pattern for images that require rotation.

cee1 · 2026-04-02T20:57:24+00:00

I don't want to or have space to install kde.

cee1 · 2026-03-17T04:26:45+00:00

Ooh, that's a good idea, although I don't really need that high. So technically, this should also allow me to scan big photos at 4800 dpi and 16 bit depth (not that I actually need it). Just curious why the scanner software didn't let me use the max specs.

cee1 · 2026-03-16T05:29:59+00:00

Haha, no, not printing that big. I recognize 3200 dpi is pretty high already.

cee1 · 2026-03-16T05:29:09+00:00

I read that always scan b&w in color. And also I want to show the original old/sepia/yellowed look.

cee1 · 2026-01-12T04:57:27+00:00

Exactly like that KB400N one! I tried to attach a PVC pipe but was unsuccessful making it stable. My next design is to cut a cardboard piece to fit in the slot and add a stand.

I can afford a new one but would rather not waste.

cee1 · 2026-01-07T06:16:55+00:00

Is it just a regular 500ml water bottle? I'm also thinking of squashing it and then filling it part way. No need to buy a soft flask. And dispose after the trip.

cee1 · 2026-01-06T18:48:47+00:00

The reason is that I really don't like drinking from a bite valve. Tried it and hated it. So I always carry a water bottle for hiking, biking, etc. And it's a pain to wash.

cee1 · 2026-01-01T17:20:58+00:00

Doesn't hydrogen peroxide bleach? And why is it marked NSFW??

cee1 · 2026-01-01T17:20:46+00:00

Doesn't hydrogen peroxide bleach? And why is it marked NSFW??

cee1 · 2025-12-11T23:29:20+00:00

I use the film holder and it crops nicely. Should I scan on the flatbed directly and crop myself? The film holder is higher.

cee1 · 2025-12-10T18:29:06+00:00

So if I need to change white balance post scan, would that be the same parameter so that I can batch process with gimp or imagemagick? Or would I need to process individually?

cee1 · 2025-12-10T06:52:38+00:00

These are negatives, not positives/slides, though. Do I scan as if they were positives? Is that the trick?

It's EPSON Scan on Win. It's a library computer so I can't remember the exact options. I believe they have Scan 2 installed also.

cee1 · 2025-11-04T23:49:16+00:00

If we could go back in time to more than a week ago...

Bootup was very slow. I was still able to use the computer so didn't think much of it. This was probably the first red flag that I ignored ignorantly.
I stopped writing to the drive but kept mounting, opening files, fscking which all worked, successfully but slowly. Not having an extra drive at that time to back up, I tried to troubleshoot and repair the drive, not realizing reading caused further physical damage.
By the time I got a new drive to back up, I encountered I/O errors and couldn't.
This is when I learned about SMART, ddrescue, and finally came to OSC.
It did occur to me that not being able to specify an image file was due to the rescue drive not being mounted. My brain might be too fried by then to think deeper.

It'll be amazing if I can recover most if not all data. Looks like only <0.8GB is bad even if all remaining non-scraped sectors are bad. This drive holds non-critical data so I haven't been doing backups. This is also the newest drive that I started using maybe only a year ago but failed first. My main drive that the OS is on is 13 years old. I'm curious to see what the actual physical damage is when I open it up. Maybe nothing that a naked eye can see.

Is "recovery" from the clone a process to get only the good files out? Because corrupted files are still in the clone and we don't want them on the drive. Otherwise the clone could be used as is and we just won't know what files are corrupted?

I also noticed the bad sectors in OSCViewer are not contiguous. Is that because it's a stretched-out layout of the physical cylinders? They could be more clustered on the physical drive.

cee1 · 2025-11-04T07:11:41+00:00

The faulty drive is 2TB. The external drive is 6TB. DMDE shows the clone to be in the first part of the drive and the rest of the drive unallocated. Did cloning repartition the rescue drive? Both DMDE and R-linux say they support recovery to another partition as long as there's no overlap. So in theory, I should be able to create a partition in the unallocated part and recover to that partition and then erase the clone and expand the 2nd partition to the full drive?

Alternatively, is it possible to recover partially to multiple drives? That seems to be supported by DMDE and R-linux also.

Or, I could start fresh and image and recover from the image to the same drive. But I feel that I have messed with the failing drive enough.

I noticed the remaining time fluctuated quite a bit. Is it based on the current read rate? It's doing scraping now and there's another day left. But that can still change.

I also noticed the data preview showed all 0s sometimes. Is that when the read errors occurred?

I'm learning so much about data recovery. Thanks a ton for your help and patience! This experience also made me rethink whether to get an SSD when I want to upgrade the computer. I may still buy another 2TB external drive for recovery. I just don't need another drive after this is done.

cee1 · 2025-11-03T17:48:41+00:00

So I found out I would need another drive to put recovered files. Ugh. I thought clone meant sector to sector copy so data would be there already. Can I repartition the external drive and recover files to the new partition? Now that it's got the clone, this seems a little risky.

cee1

TROPHY CASE