Request: Thumbing Daemon

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JohnFredC
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Request: Thumbing Daemon

Post by JohnFredC »

Please consider a stand-alone utility that would create and cache thumb images for MP in the background.

Perhaps the user could designate a root folder on the command line and the daemon would traverse the subfolders.
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JohanP
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Re: Request: Thumbing Daemon

Post by JohanP »

I support this request too!

Why?
Because I have a lot of images in subfolders with embedded category-information.
Starting with a empty database there is no categorie-information in XnView visible (categories-tree).
When I now want to select images of a certain categorie,
I must first manualy visit each subfolder to create thumb images (and category-entries).

Maybe it is possible to start such a task within XnView and let it run in the background.

JohanP
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RGhost
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Re: Request: Thumbing Daemon

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...with multi-treading generation
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m.Th.
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Re: Request: Thumbing Daemon

Post by m.Th. »

JohanP wrote:I support this request too!

Why?
Because I have a lot of images in subfolders with embedded category-information.
Starting with a empty database there is no categorie-information in XnView visible (categories-tree).
When I now want to select images of a certain categorie,
I must first manualy visit each subfolder to create thumb images (and category-entries).

Maybe it is possible to start such a task within XnView and let it run in the background.

JohanP
Resurrecting an old thread - this is possible by choosing your root folder, right-click and choose 'Show all files (recursive)' and leaving XnViewMP overnight to generate them. :mrgreen:
No more manually visiting each folder...
m. Th.

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Re: Request: Thumbing Daemon

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Or recursively too via: Settings\CacheDB\add Folder... "a base path"(your root folder)
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