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Setting to Never Cache Certain Folders

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:44 pm
by JohnFredC
I would like to automatically exclude certain folders (and certain drives) from the XnView thumbnail cache.

Please consider implementing a "black list" functionality for folders for which XnView should never cache the thumbs...

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:09 pm
by Olivier_G
Good idea. :D

Olivier

Re: Setting to Never Cache Certain Folders

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:11 am
by xnview
JohnFredC wrote:I would like to automatically exclude certain folders (and certain drives) from the XnView thumbnail cache.

Please consider implementing a "black list" functionality for folders for which XnView should never cache the thumbs...
The folder cache must be rewritten in a future release...

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:27 pm
by wOxxOm
Any progress on this extraordinary useful feature?

Re: Setting to Never Cache Certain Folders

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:04 am
by ckit
JohnFredC wrote:I would like to automatically exclude certain folders (and certain drives) from the XnView thumbnail cache.

Please consider implementing a "black list" functionality for folders for which XnView should never cache the thumbs...
You have my FULL support on this one!

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:45 pm
by JohnFredC
Other useful options have occurred to me in the years since my original suggestion:

1. Option: Do not cache thumbs for folders with fewer than n images
2. Option: Do not cache thumbs of images with filesize < n bytes
3. Option: Do not cache thumbs of images with dimensions < a certain size (such as 320x200, par example)

A generic dialog (a la TC) for named filter definition would simplify this. Then one could specific explicitly which folders to cache or black-list using a named filter definition to exclude matching folders or files.

Although this schema might seem over-kill to most users, my XnView thumbs cache is already 0.5Gb, so additional caching rules would help tame the beast.

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:34 pm
by wOxxOm
JohnFredC, excellent conditions set. #2 & #3 often occur as very useful to me

New Cache function: Exclude all excepted...

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:29 pm
by oops66
Or probably easier to do, a new cache function: "Exclude all excepted these folders & sub-folders..." ?
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=69116#69116

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:38 pm
by bugmenot
I agree: a white list or black list will both work fine, whichever is easiest to program. Also even if the cache is turned off, I think you should read from it for thumbnails instead of generating them

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:07 pm
by pic_viewer

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:21 am
by oops66
Not only a black & white list but a composite list will be useful:

The easier way is to have a black and a white list for the cache, but a composite list will be better.
A- a White list do only that: Include these folders and subfolders
B- a black list do only that: Exclude these folders and subfolders

C- a composite list is useful in this case: "Exclude all excepted these folders & sub-folders..."

See here too:
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=66489#66489