Setting to Never Cache Certain Folders

[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...

[Olivier_G]

Good idea.

Olivier

[xnview]

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...

[wOxxOm]

Any progress on this extraordinary useful feature?

[ckit]

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!

[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.

[wOxxOm]

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

[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

[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

[pic_viewer]

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

[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