After updating Mac OS Monterey to v.12.6, PAI 1.0 stoped working. Capture One 21 created a copy of the file, and sent to PAI for processing, but unexpectedly message pop-up.
My first thought was, oh no, Apple again did something wrong, but it’s just incremental update, not a new OS Ventura, or whatever its name. I decided to do investigation myself. Once it worked, and I posted my findings in this forum before, why can’t it work second time. I might be able to help developers to pinpoint to the source of the problem, to save their time and efforts, and include fix in the next update.
I started to try different camera’s files, type of files, and get no positive result. After I decided to shorten file names, on the same files, that I processed before, using PAI. It’s only option that is left. I am well educated person, but not in computer science.
I usually name my files, start with camera name, place pictures was taken, and date. It produce long file names, but if i need it, it’s easy to find. Like “Nikon D700 - Our Vacation, Paris, France, July 21-28, 2015” for example, as is shortest one.
I started to cut one letter after another, and try C1 after each deleted letter or number to proceed. After 25-30 tries, nothing worked, and I decided to make myself espresso. I was very curious, because Stand alone PAI doesn’t have any problem to process those files, but Plug-n does. I was in shoes of beta testers.
Finally I gave up, made screen shots, load them in Capture One and made my last try to use PAI Plug-In, to increase small size PAI message for posting, and file name should be ok, as I used it before many times for posting my pictures on this forum, but I got it again. What’s wrong with that name?
I started to laugh. It’s really that IA so smart, that can read the message, realized I want to complain to developers about PAI behaviour, and try to stop me to doing that.
In that moment, I’ve got “Aha”. As everyone knows, “all good things must come to an end”.
Only one thing I did not try is … to delete spaces between letters/numbers, and my screen shot name, from “Screen Shot 2022-09-18 at 11.04.33 PM” that computer generated automatically, became look like “ScreenShot2022-09-18at11.05.19PM” and It worked!
For some reason, after update my Mac OS Monterey to the latest v.12.6, PAI stoped accepting files with spaces in file names. This is my findings, that please, need to be addressed in the next PAI update.
). I am really thrilled, the first time that an AI, in my experience, a really excellent result. Surprisingly excellent. THANK YOU for that.
Martin
