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Hi, I just asked a question on StackOverflow here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3524 ... thumbnails. But, I was wondering if this is an issue ever seen with imagemagick 6.7.7 . Basically I have thumbs and previews generated with this gray box on the bottom of them. Any help would be GREAT! Thank you!!!

I've seen similar, though more commonly with black bottoms, in old versions of IM. The problem occurred when IM ran out of temporary storage (in /tmp or wherever), causing IM to crash, which left more junk files in tmp. So the workaround was to periodically clean tmp.

Thanks snibgo, wouldn't that mean that my disk is filling up?

Not necessarily. The computer may be configured to limit space available in individual directories. So another workaround was to tell IM to use a different location for temporary storage. See MAGICK_TEMPORARY_PATH at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/resou ... nvironment

Re-reading that link, I recall that MAGICK_SYNCHRONIZE was also useful: if there was a space problem, it would be reported instead of returning "success" with a partially-written image.