XnView Software

i've set the "maximum size for cached thumbnails" to 1MB, and after browsing just a few folders my thumbs.db file is 250MB. i can cope with that size, but it shows no correlation to the max size i specified in the settings, and there's nothing to suggest it won't grow further as i browse more ...

seems i can just delete the file and xnviewmp creates a new one when it next runs. problem solved, for now, but i'd like to be certain that this won't happen again in a few weeks time...

i've done that. every option under "optimize" is checked, and when i hit "ok" the process completes immediately, probably because having deleted all the thumbnails there's nothing there for it to optimize. i still have a 20GB file.

also the maximum size for cached thumbnails is set to 100MB, and ...

Hello. My thumbs.db file has grown to 20GB in size. I have a small SSD for my OS drive and need to shrink this file, and then prevent it from growing again.
I've gone into the database options and deleted all the thumbs from in there, turned off caching etc, and still I have a 20GB file.
What can I ...