To run Rapid Photo Downloader under WSLg on Windows 11, using the Windows Subsystem for Linux Preview from the Microsoft Store is strongly recommended. Using the version of WSL that comes installed with Windows 11 can cause severe usability issues while running programs like Rapid Photo Downloader. Read the documentation on Rapid Photo Downloader and WSL on the program website.
Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9.35 requires Python 3.10 or newer.
Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9.19 introduced support for HEIF / HEIC files. The documentation goes into details.
Version 0.9.19 also introduced much improved support for high-resolution displays. Consult the documentation to learn more.
If thumbnailing fails to finish but no error is reported, that could indicate Exiv2 has crashed. See the documentation for how to resolve the problem:
On some systems, Rapid Photo Downloader cannot use gstreamer to generate video thumbnails for all common video files. Install the good and libav plugins for gstreamer to solve this problem. In Debian and Ubuntu-like systems, the packages are gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-good On Fedora, the packages are gstreamer1-plugins-good and gstreamer1-libav. Fedora users can enable the rpmfusion.org free repository to be able to install gstreamer1-libav.