Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9.0a7 is released

Software Rapid Photo Downloader
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Download it here: http://damonlynch.net/rapid/download.html

Changes since the last release:

  • Added backup configuration to the user interface. A future alpha release
    will show the backup destinations like they are shown in the Destinations
    tab.

  • A check for a new version is run at program startup. If the program was
    installed using python’s packaging system pip, and the latest version can
    be upgraded without new system dependencies, the program offers to download
    the new version and install it with minimal user intervention.

  • The graphical user interface is considerably more responsive when the
    program is under heavy load because of changes made in the ways helper
    threads are handled by the main window. Long-term program stability will
    also be improved, although in the short-term some bugs may have snuck in
    due to the threading changes.

  • Prompt for Job Code when file and folder naming preferences are changed to
    include it. Thanks to Monty Taylor for the fix.

  • Fixed bug #1656932: in certain circumstances the scan process could crash
    when trying to determine device time zones when examining sample photos and
    videos.

  • Fixed a bug too small of a portion of a .mov or .avi file from a camera or
    phone was being extracted in order to read video metadata.

  • Fixed a bug where thumbnails were not being rendered in the main window
    when the thumbnail was originally sourced from the Freedesktop.org
    thumbnail cache.

  • Disallow the running of the program as the root user.

  • Updated program installer to stop installation on Fedora 23 and Debian
    Jessie.

  • Corrected error in Spanish translation that caused crash when download
    started.

  • Refined detection of directory in which media are mounted (/media or
    /run/media).

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Nice! I’ll download the new version tomorrow!

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Hi, I’d like to try it in Manjaro (Arch based distro). I think all the dependencies were satisfied ans the installation seemed to be successful. However I don’t know how to start the program.
There’s a “Rapid Photo Downloader” launcher added to the programs menu under “Graphics”, but when I click on it there’s an error message : “Failed to execute child process “rapid-photo-downloader” (No such file or directory)”. Any idea ?

EDIT: ah sorry… I didn’t read the console output, I found where the program was installed, it works. I just have libmediainfo reported as missing, going to check this out…

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New version is looking awesome. I use It in my main computer with UbuntuGnome and works very well. Thanks for your effort Damon. :wink: