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Preloaded thumbnails not working
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 11:10 am
by FlyAway
Hi
I added the folders to scan in the catalog and let XnView MP work all night. In the morning I had the Thumb.db file of about 20 giga, so the job was done correctly.
The problem is that when I tried to launch the program and open the folders where I have the photos, XnView MP scans the folder as if the thumbnails were not already scanned
Re: Preloaded thumbnails not working
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 6:24 am
by xnview
do you see your folders in Settings>Catalog? are you using 'base path'?
Re: Preloaded thumbnails not working
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 12:19 pm
by FlyAway
strange, the path now is "\"
but if I open the xnview.ini I have
dbFlag=2
dbFolder=E:/- Temp/Pics/XnViewMP/
which is the path I remember I had set.
I don't understand
Re: Preloaded thumbnails not working
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 5:48 am
by xnview
FlyAway wrote: Fri Apr 18, 2025 12:19 pm
strange, the path now is "\"
if 'base path' is /, it's good
do you see your folders in Settings>Catalog?
Re: Preloaded thumbnails not working
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 11:56 am
by FlyAway
why is good?
yes, I see the folders
anyway, I have change it to E:\- Temp\Pics\XnViewMP\ and reloaded the thumbnail but nothing is changed
edit
I think I understood what the problem is, I moved the thumbnail size led while in Settings-Catalog the old size was still set.
I didn't understand why the path changed for its own while in xnview.ini it was set correctly, but anyway the problem is solved... thanks
edit 2
I thought the problem was completely solved but it is not. If I open a folder with many photos, the scan occurs and the thumbnails are created, then if I change folder and then go back to the previous one, a "mini scan" occurs that I do not understand. It is brief but it does not seem normal to me that it is there.
Re: Preloaded thumbnails not working
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:52 am
by xnview
FlyAway wrote: Sat Apr 19, 2025 11:56 am
why is good?
'base path' is only needed when you share hptos folder between computer
I thought the problem was completely solved but it is not. If I open a folder with many photos, the scan occurs and the thumbnails are created, then if I change folder and then go back to the previous one, a "mini scan" occurs that I do not understand. It is brief but it does not seem normal to me that it is there.
what do you means by 'mini scan'?
Re: Preloaded thumbnails not working
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2025 9:30 am
by FlyAway
xnview wrote: Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:52 am
FlyAway wrote: Sat Apr 19, 2025 11:56 am
why is good?
'base path' is only needed when you share hptos folder between computer
I thought the problem was completely solved but it is not. If I open a folder with many photos, the scan occurs and the thumbnails are created, then if I change folder and then go back to the previous one, a "mini scan" occurs that I do not understand. It is brief but it does not seem normal to me that it is there.
what do you means by 'mini scan'?
which does a faster scan, as if it already had the thumbnails but was downloading other data. In other cases, it repeats the scan from scratch, even if we have already opened that folder previously
Re: Preloaded thumbnails not working
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 1:28 pm
by xnview
FlyAway wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 9:30 am
which does a faster scan, as if it already had the thumbnails but was downloading other data. In other cases, it repeats the scan from scratch, even if we have already opened that folder previously
There is always a quick scan, thumbnails are imported one by one from catalog
could you change
in xnview.ini and send me the logs?
Re: Preloaded thumbnails not working
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2025 8:06 pm
by FlyAway
xnview wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 1:28 pm
FlyAway wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 9:30 am
which does a faster scan, as if it already had the thumbnails but was downloading other data. In other cases, it repeats the scan from scratch, even if we have already opened that folder previously
There is always a quick scan, thumbnails are imported one by one from catalog
could you change
in xnview.ini and send me the logs?
yes sure. I have modified the ini and I think that the log is created but where I can find it?
Tell me where I must send you the log
Thanks!
Re: Preloaded thumbnails not working
Posted: Tue May 06, 2025 7:39 am
by xnview
you have a little window opened with logs