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I have a simple setup: Linux server at home with a huge drive; that drive has a photo library (hundreds of folders, hundreds of gigabytes). The drive is shared with multiple Windows and Mac clients using Samba.
Question: is there a utility I can run to pre-generate all thumbnails inside a folder, so that my clients would be able to navigate the library faster?
Thank you.
Alex
Posted 2013-12-08T06:52:51.903
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Windows and Mac use different cache formats to store thumbnails.
Thumbs.db is deprecated for the Windows platform, since Vista, they've been stored in a proprietary database located in C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer on each individual computer.
For Mac OSX and later, the thumbnail cache is stored in ~Library/caches/ on each individual computer.
So, as the "disappeared" answer earlier started, there is no way to pre-generate thumbnails for Windows Explorer or Mac Finder. What one could do, is pre-generate folders with thumbnail'd images. I do this for my personal photo library, I have a cron script to run imagemagick over new images to generate a 100x100 thumbnail.
Chris S
Posted 2013-12-08T06:52:51.903
Reputation: 71
One promising direction, but only for Mac: http://www.phillips321.co.uk/2013/08/14/synothumb-py-only-does-pics-but-is-for-os-x/
– Alex – 2013-12-08T06:58:09.477One other lead: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=34112.0
– Alex – 2013-12-08T23:59:53.040See the Edit to my answer. – MariusMatutiae – 2013-12-09T07:39:24.053
@MariusMatutiae I don't see your answer, looks like it disappeared – Alex – 2013-12-09T20:00:21.943
This was asked a while back. There still seems to be no way to do it. – Synetech – 2013-12-15T06:17:11.957
I don't see your answer, looks like it disappearedWhen he figured out what you were asking, he updated his answer to say that he can’t find any way to do it, then deleted it. – Synetech – 2013-12-15T06:19:24.390