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Background task thumbnailing
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:44 am
by jadO
I'd like to see a real background task for thumbnailing. Currently you have to be in the folder and scrolling down depending on settings.
And when rebuliding via settings->catalog, it is a foreground process and blocking any other interaction.
This should be a process running in the background and should not block interaction.
Re: Background task thumbnailing
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 2:50 pm
by masterjp
You can use a trick and start two instances of xnview mp. The first one you use for generating thumbnails and the second one for viewing files or editing. That is better than waiting.
Re: Background task thumbnailing
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:14 pm
by jadO
masterjp wrote:You can use a trick and start two instances of xnview mp. The first one you use for generating thumbnails and the second one for viewing files or editing. That is better than waiting.
I have already thought about that but then I have 2 instances eating up memory space.
Re: Background task thumbnailing
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:16 pm
by xnview
so a way to check and create thumbnails for specified folder?
Re: Background task thumbnailing
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:26 pm
by jadO
xnview wrote:so a way to check and create thumbnails for specified folder?
Yes there should be some way that I can launch creating thumbnails for a specific folder and this goes into background mode so that I can switch to different folders and keep on working, while the background task keeps running.
Re: Background task thumbnailing
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 9:30 pm
by XnTriq
I'd like to remind Pierre about John's ideas (2010)…
… which might even help to prevent MP from
running out of memory.