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Is this a system you support or a personal one ?
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Both: but I don't think I can charge anyone for my time on this. And a "proper fix" is going to involve significant UI changes which always raise user hackles ... there is nowhere I can report problems like this in the current UI layout, damnit. Should have thought of that way back when. 
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Tell them that the software is "out of support".
If Microsoft can retire Windows editions after 10 years, why can't you retire your program? 
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In your thumbnail generation process, can you not verify it and if not a valid JPG, return a thumbnail image with text that says "invalid image file" or "don't be such a plonker" or some such? If the thumbnail process is storing the image somewhere prior to dumping to the database, just copy a similar "invalid" image ins place. That way nothing gets screwed up in the database, the user gets notified, and all the changed code is in the right place - image processing.
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Hmm ... That's a much better approach. And pretty simple to implement as well.
Excellent idea! 
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You're welcome. Where do I send the invoice? 
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"FAO Boris Johnson, 10 Downing Street, London SW1A 2AB"
He's as likely to pay it as I am!
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Welcome to my current life. Over the last several years my group has gone from 17 people in three departments to 5 in a single department. We're still supporting everything.
I spend more than half my time debugging and fixing other people's crap, and many of the problems are like the one you describe. People who took shortcuts, made stupid assumptions, or were just ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing sloppy.
I spent close to a year debugging a problem in some embedded software that was caused by the original author not re-initializing some control values on an Ethernet error. It was the kind of excreta that doesn't happen in a robust, conscientious design.OriginalGriff wrote: hunt down the moron who thought "RIFF and JPG are the same thing really" and exterminate him with extreme prejudice
The worst offender was a guy who spent over 20 years working on a single product, and had written it so that he was the only person who could maintain it. He passed away a couple years ago. It's mighty tempting to drink a potful of coffee and go express my opinion on his grave.
Software Zen: delete this;
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R.I.P.[^]
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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lol
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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