Sannyasin Hi-if you having trouble with 4D crashing it you might consider exporting the picture in the what ever format it currently is and then using LEP to call the command line to convert it to a JPG, then you can re-import the new picture.
https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/sips.1.html <https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/sips.1.html> Nigel Greenlee > On 6 Feb 2017, at 22:02, Sannyasin Siddhanathaswami <[email protected]> wrote: > > Aloha, > > We are starting the preparations for v16, and dealing with the picture > issues. Let’s just say we have tons of ancient photos in our database! We are > currently using v15.3 on a Mac (server - client). > > Basically, we are trying to convert all pictures to jpg. Unfortunately, doing > this crashed 4D: > CONVERT PICTURE([Members]Picture;".jpg";0.8) > > Even putting the picture field into a variable before converting crashes > during the “Convert Picture.” It’s not all picture, just many of them. By > crash, the 4D.app just quits to the desktop with a crash report. > > I can view these pictures just fine in an input form. If I copy the picture > out of the input form, into another app, then back in, the conversion works > fine. > > Anyone have any tips on how to approach this? If I run the method to execute > on server, the whole server crashes… > > Thanks, > > > Sannyasin Siddhanathaswami > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
