Photopaint

Hi George,
Thanks for the suggestion, but:
The only problem with installing both X6 and X7 is that the CPT thumbnails disappear. I tried uninstalling the X6 Shell Extension and installing the X6 Shell Extension but then everything crashed in both X6 and X7.
The problem could very well be Mystic Thumbs. It could be taking over the request for thumbnails and then replying that it can't create them. However, I need Mystic Thumbs for Photoshop PSD files. They're the only way to move layered files between Corel PhotoPaint, Adobe Photoshop, and even Corel's PaintShopPro.
I absolutely can't understand Gerard's ten year refusal to make the CPT thumbnails public. It's sounds crazy to me. He has needlessly created aggravation for a lot of users.
Phil

This thread reminds me of why I'm so tired of Microsoft and Windows. In OS X, pretty much every file type can be viewed beautifully as a thumb and blown up to the size of your screen, INSTANTLY. I messed around with crappy Mystic Thumbs. It worked sometimes and sometimes did not. I tried other solutions with the same crappy result. Sometimes I had to wait and wonder if a thumb would become visible in Explorer. Why in the world is Windows not like OS X where you can see everything, everywhere, instantly. On the desktop, in the email client, etc. OS X is amazing, visual, and caters to people dealing with image files. Windows? Microsoft is only interested in making sure that you will become a Bing customer, a OneDrive customer, and use it's stupid apps on your desktop PC. And making sure that you are logged into a Live account at all times.

In general, I agree that the Mac OS is nice from a user's perspective.

KuttyJoe said:

...In OS X, pretty much every file type can be viewed beautifully as a thumb and blown up to the size of your screen, INSTANTLY...

The Preview App really doesn't like to faithfully represent most any print-ready PDF I make if there are spot colors, transparency, etc. But that's the only exception I have seen.

Apple does a lot of things right. Want to sell an application for the Mac OS? Conform to a set of absolute specs/requirements. That's a good thing. I look at Macs as having "refined sensibilities." Whereas Windows has always reflected the Wild Wild West sort of thing. It's been changing ever so slowly, but there really hasn't been a determination on MS' part to get there anytime soon.

Microsoft has become desperate. They can't afford to not drag along it's legion of desktop users so they are basically not giving them a choice. Just look at the foul way they are advertising Windows 10. In your notification area. And if you choose to hide it like other notifications, it comes right back when you reboot. You have to get clever to get rid of it. You have to figure out which "update" installed this malware and uninstall that update. Then you have to not allow automatic updates anymore. This is Microsoft's approach to everything since Windows 8. Bing. Logging in when you start your pc. OneDrive, etc. If you stay with Windows then this is what you will have to deal with. Microsoft's behavior is sinister.

Not meaning to sound fatalistic, but most corporations I deal with act in a sinister way. From the banks that (most) aren't really local anymore, to the grocery store, to the "Do No Harm" boys, to the idiots sitting on boards, those toying with Wall Street, and our (and about everyone else's) governments. It's a long list and it is only getting worse.

Personally, I also put Apple on the same list as MS, Adobe, etc.

You don't need to use a MS Live account to log in, either. One of my computers do, the other two don't. In a way, that's beside the point. The software we use and the platform we use it on--regardless of the platform--collects metadata on everything we do with it irrespective of the log-in. I don't personally care. Don't wanna share the info, never, ever, connect to a signal.

MikeWe said:

Not meaning to sound fatalistic, but most corporations I deal with act in a sinister way

Now there's an understatement if I've ever heard one!  I get an increase in junk mail when I visit the VA (Veterans Administration) none of it VA related.  Let's face it this is the 21st century information age whether it's the bank, Apple, Microsoft of the corner store they all suck up all the data they can. So bend over and get used to it, the cell tower your app pings off can be used in court to determine that you were in the kennel stepping out on the family cat. NO PROTECTION for apps.

So keep anything that's private on something that YOU MAKE SURE has no internet access.

Arguing over whether Apple or Microsoft is screwing you the most is as bad a arguing over which politician is screwing you the most. They are all!

David Milisock said:

I get an increase in junk mail when I visit the VA (Veterans Administration) none of it VA related. 

I don't.  That has never happened to me and there's no chance that the VA is sharing your personal information with 3rd parties to send you junk mail.  LOL  As usual, you just have no idea what's going on.

David Milisock said:

Arguing over whether Apple or Microsoft is screwing you the most is as bad a arguing over which politician is screwing you the most. They are all!

Except, that's not the argument.  LOL  But you of course never actually know what's being discussed.

KuttyJoe said:

That has never happened to me and there's no chance that the VA is sharing your personal information with 3rd parties to send you junk mail

RIGHT! 4 million people lose their privacy with a government run program, oh it was their employees.  The NSA catches their employees spying on their spouses electronic communications, that never happened right!

I make my first call on the VA in over 30 years, give them my private information and within 10 days I start receiving mail which has specific information in it which I jut gave out.

OK I trust the government!  [:P]

NO way that someone slipped one of the people a couple C notes for a list, those people all were really wealthy and don't need any money or they were all paragons of virtue. I hope this line drips with sarcasm!

This is the human race we're talking about, you can buy anything or damn near anyone!

Yep you're an Adobe guy.

David Milisock said:

KuttyJoe

That has never happened to me and there's no chance that the VA is sharing your personal information with 3rd parties to send you junk mail

RIGHT! 4 million people lose their privacy with a government run program, oh it was their employees.  The NSA catches their employees spying on their spouses electronic communications, that never happened right!

I make my first call on the VA in over 30 years, give them my private information and within 10 days I start receiving mail which has specific information in it which I jut gave out.

OK I trust the government!  [:P]

NO way that someone slipped one of the people a couple C notes for a list, those people all were really wealthy and don't need any money or they were all paragons of virtue. I hope this line drips with sarcasm!

This is the human race we're talking about, you can buy anything or damn near anyone!

Yep you're an Adobe guy.

See what you did right there.  Rather than blaming the VA as whole as you originally did, you're now blaming the actions of some rogue employee.  It is obviously not the policy of the VA to do such things.  As always with you, there's no truth.  Just loud talking. 

I probably have less faith in humanity than you.  And I've mentioned 50 times that I hate Adobe for their policy of renting software even though it's super high quality software.  But how can I hate Adobe for renting super high quality software and not hate Corel for selling trash for decades?  Somehow though, you make an exception for Corel, who is also trying to rent that trash software as best they can.

KuttyJoe said:

See what you did right there.  Rather than blaming the VA as whole as you originally did, you're now blaming the actions of some rogue employee

This is what I mean by Adobe person, limited thinking, the VA, like a church, like a city, state or federal government or anything else is just an organization made up of people, but the individuals action is an action of the whole, they can't be separated. It's the organizations fault that their policies do not prevent abuse.  So it does not matter what policy any of them have, they will do what they do, so protect your self.

That's why we have policemen killing people,school teachers and church people having sex with kids, government corruption in a vast scale. Any study of history will show that we as humans are what we are and any organization we create in the end reflects what we are.

Now as far as Corel I've been pushing the corporation to move their product since version 4 when is was barely useful except for the really talented.  It's now useful for a general use in the professional arena so if you ask some of the current and past managers they may have a different opinion on how I have  treated them.

David Milisock said:

This is what I mean by Adobe person, limited thinking, the VA, like a church, like a city, state or federal government or anything else is just an organization made up of people, but the individuals action is an action of the whole, they can't be separated.

Nonsense.  The organization has policies.  An individual may break those policies.  First you condemned the organization. Then you thought better of it and instead condemned the rogue employee.  Now you are trying to conflate the two as if they are one and the same.  They are not.  For you, the result might be the same.  Not that you can prove a drop of what you just stated about the junk mail. 

My only point is that it's highly unlikely that it is the policy of the VA to do such a thing.  If an individual within the VA did it, then there's no point in mentioning the name of the VA in your little rant.