Images are not shown

pavel

Hello guys, the app is great!
But some time ago images stopped being loaded from google drive. Upload works great when I paste images, but when I restart Legend they are not visible anymore (because Legend tries to download them and fail)
When I click placeholder for image and select “View in browser”

it gets shown in browser corretly.
I tried Windows app on Windows 10 and Windows 11, and also a web app in Chrome and Opera

I suspect it could be related to my ISP, but anyway it is strange that image can be viewed with browser itself using the URL that Legend provides, but Legend itself cannot

Jay

Hi pavel. Thanks for the report! It looks like something changed in Drive’s backend which broke displaying images inline, so I added a workaround which makes it work. How is it looking for you now?

pavel

Hi Jay , sorry for delay with reply.
You fix indeed works! Just curious what have you changed?

I have a question.

I have 9 local documents. But recently I noticed that they altogether are too heavy for Legend. I had to move 1 of them (size of 4mb) out of docs folder to keep Legend working properly. Else filter, settings and other buttons do not work and cursor becomes invisible.
But I figured out how I can make my files much smaller. Just writing a Python script that removes all moved and deleted items I can make largest of my documents (6mb) 3 times smaller.
So the question is how to figure out the item is deleted (inside .json document file).
I guess I already figured out that moved item has “y”:true, hope my guess is correct.

drewpierce

Hey @Jay, I excitedly updated my app thinking this beta would fix my similar [but apparently different?] issue of inline images not being displayed. Mine are not Google Drive images. They are web images where I copy-pasted the URLs into the Insert Image popups. They display fine initially, but when I close the app and return later, in place of the actual images, there are little image placeholder icons being shown. I have to manually right-click, choose the top ‘Show as text’ option, and then right-click again and toggle to ‘Show Image’ - on each and every one. But this only works while the app remains open, after which I need to repeat the process for each, so I stopped bothering entirely, which means I effectively never see web images inline (womp womp). Am I missing something? Thanks!

Jay

drewpierce Thanks for the details! This is fixed in the latest version.

pavel The workaround is that Google’s APIs return a google.com/uc?... url which doesn’t work in img tags, but changing that to google.com/thumbnail?... seems to fix it.

And yes that’s correct, moved items have "y": true. Deleted items have "x": true

I’m surprised though that large files would cause such a problem though. If you don’t mind sharing, could you send me a .zip of your files in a DM and I can test with them? It’s possible it’s something else unrelated to size so it would be good to see exactly what you’re seeing. I totally understand if it’s sensitive data though - I can try making some huge files and see if I can reproduce it.

We use a server time for an accurate modified time so it may be that we need to fix setting modified times in local files. I’ll look into that.

pavel

I wonder, when something in Legend changed that “Modified” datetime stopped updating. Though in old docs I can see some items have different “Created” and “Modified” datetimes, ie expected behavior.