User:Tim Starling

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About "cannot rename" warnings:

<TimStarling> say if you have the images [[Image:Something.jpg]] and [[Image:123px-Something.jpg]]
<TimStarling> the error comes when you try to view a thumbnail of [[Image:123px-Something.jpg]]
<irreverence> i thought people only uploaded those manual thumbnails before the auto-thumbnailing was available
<irreverence> do they still do it?
<TimStarling> because it tries to create a directory of the name 123px-Something.jpg, which may already be taken by a legitimate thumbnail of Something.jpg
<TimStarling> I don't know, but I'm about to tell you the workaround
<TimStarling> now, if you instead request the legitimate thumbnail in a page, that legitimate thumbnail will be moved to the new directory structure
<TimStarling> and thus out of the way of the poorly-named image
<TimStarling> I may as well test it myself....
<TimStarling> ah, good stuff
<TimStarling> there, like that
<TimStarling> all fixed
<TimStarling> see, all I had to do was preview this page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tim_Starling/thumbnails
<TimStarling> which has the thumbnails that were causing problems listed

/thumbnails