XnView Software

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...

Good idea.

Olivier

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...

Any progress on this extraordinary useful feature?

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!

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.

JohnFredC, excellent conditions set. #2 & #3 often occur as very useful to me

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

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

+1.
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=15998

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