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Unbuntu File and Screen Problem


Robert

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There I was at the University of South Carolina website downloading images, when Ubuntu started giving nautilus crash messages. Rebooting fixed the problem, for a few minutes at a time, then I got this screen and all hope was lost:

http://imgur.com/eWQy4sM

 

 

All I had been doing is downloading newspaper images like this:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93067853/1906-07-27/ed-1/seq-1/

 

 

Something about having those files on the computer causes the screen to mess up.

 

I thought I would have to reinstall Ubuntu, but I found that by hooking up the Ubuntu drive as a slave drive to Fedora, I was able to delete the image files (.jpg) of the newspapers. That fixed everything.

 

I experimented a bit first. Deleting the jpg file from the Ubuntu desktop fixed the screen problem, but having a copy of it in the downloads folder still crashed nautilus if I selected that folder.

 

Weird.

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Obviously, there was more in the file downloaded than a simple image.

Can you examine the meta-data and other non-image info in the file?

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Obviously, there was more in the file downloaded than a simple image.

Can you examine the meta-data and other non-image info in the file?

 

I'm not downloading from that website using Ubuntu. I still have the files on the Fedora drive so will take a look later. Is there anything I need to know to look at the meta-data?

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Where did you get the jpg files as the download links list pdf, text and jp2 (which is essentially a type of jpeg)?

 

I downloaded the jp2 file and it opened with gimp just fine. Perhaps this is a bug with nautilus and jp2 file but that would be too common not to be fixed.

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Here is the exiftool output on the same image as you linked to:

 

gSYUL5o.png

 

I had to use an image as it wouldn't line up right on code or quote pastes. Here is a link to the output: http://ix.io/Udx

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I gave it a try but I can't get the Exif program to work.

 

More info on the original problem:

I had downloaded the same files twice so it was automatically named seq-1(1).jp2

 

Could the extra brackets in the file name cause such problems?

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Could the extra brackets in the file name cause such problems?

 

No, that would of not affected anything.

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No, that would of not affected anything.

sed s/of/have/

I have an autobot set up to do this every time it occurs. ;)

 

Right.... :hysterical:

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