In Options>Thumbnail>Cache: if you 'Add Folder', compression setting will not be applied to the cached thumbnails (lossless zip is always used instead).
(original thread is here, but I created a new report as this particular bug makes the new 'Add folder' feature unusable)
B1: Compression is not applied for Cache: 'Add Folder'
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