mogrify crash under XP

[cromagnon]

Hi - I'm trying to resize a bunch (361 jpegs each at 2592 x 1944 and between 300 and 800kb) of images in a folder on my XP machine. The files are in C:\folder1, and I want to resize them in place to 1024x768, overwriting the originals. I'm issuing the command

mogrify -resize x768 *.jpg

and am instantly getting the standard Windows fatal error dialog for error reporting that begins "ImageMagick Studio library and utility programs has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

I've tried mogrify -debug all -resize x768 *.jpg

but receive no log of debug output anywhere. Any advice?

Thanks!


PS - versions are:

Version: ImageMagick 6.4.8 2008-12-27 Q8 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (that's XP Pro with SP3)

[Bonzo]

Works OK for me with Command prompt and a couple of images - XP SP2 Version 6.4.0

I assume you

CD\
CD folder1

[cromagnon]

Thanks - yes, I was running the command having cd'd into the correct folder: even if it hadn't I would expect a file not found error rather than a crash. Is there an archive of Windows binaries for IM anywhere? I can find the legacy source code releases on sourceforge, but can't compile on this machine...

[magick]

We tried your command with the latest ImageMagick release, 6.4.8-3, available as http://www.imagemagick.org/download/bin ... ws-dll.exe under Windows XP and the command completed without complaint. Not sure why its failing for you.

[cromagnon]

Excellent - thanks. At least I know the problem is with my computer now. Could you tell me:

a) is there an archive of Windows binaries for legacy releases?
b) where should I find the debug output for mogrify -debug all -resize x768 *.jpg? On the screen or in a default file somewhere?

[el_supremo]

a) is there an archive of Windows binaries for legacy releases?

Not an official site but this has a lot of legacy versions:
http://image_magick.veidrodis.com/image_magick/binaries/

b) where should I find the debug output for mogrify -debug all -resize x768 *.jpg? On the screen or in a default file somewhere?

It looks like it crashed immediately so there won't be any debugging output.
I suspect that your command line is too long because the *.jpg will be expanded into well over 4000 characters.

Try quoting the output filename like this:

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mogrify -resize x768 "*.jpg"

This lets mogrify expand the wildcard internally so that the command line limit won't be exceeded.

Pete

[cromagnon]

Pete - thank you! I have no problems running your modified command with the quoted wildcard in anything other than the latest version. You've saved me an enormous amount of time!

PS: Should I pass this over to the bug forum?

[el_supremo]

If the command behaves correctly in any version except the most current one then you should post it to the bugs forum along with whatever error message(s) you get.

Pete