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<blockquote data-quote="HappyTalk" data-source="post: 101569" data-attributes="member: 22671">OK I see your logic now.Ideally though I think it would be more useful if folder thumbs were named using full folder name (dot for slash, which must be quicker then crc hashing) as then you can look at them in thumbs folder and easily delete old ones or easily see errors that may need fixing in your tagging or picture settings by checking name against image. With CRC you cannot tell what number corresponds to what file so don't know what's old/new/good/bad etc.And if album ones were album-artist not artist-album given that they are thumbs for albums not artists as then they would be sorted in folder in album order, again making it easy to analyse what has been generated.OK fair enough if you need to maintain backward compatability, though I thought the thumbs were a cache to aid speed and were auto generated by MP when scanning so could be easily re-created by a rescan. I still find it a bit unnerving to have an extra 10,000 duplicate thumbs generated, even if they do take up minimal space. I can see duplicates being a possibility with no guaranteed unique ident for the album thumb names when based on artist and album + being harder to locate for deletion if records are removed etc, but It's all no big deal really in the scheme of things.I will have to retag all loose files, not part of complete albumsclearing the album tag that may clean things up a bit.cheers for your time</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HappyTalk, post: 101569, member: 22671"] OK I see your logic now. Ideally though I think it would be more useful if folder thumbs were named using full folder name (dot for slash, which must be quicker then crc hashing) as then you can look at them in thumbs folder and easily delete old ones or easily see errors that may need fixing in your tagging or picture settings by checking name against image. With CRC you cannot tell what number corresponds to what file so don't know what's old/new/good/bad etc. And if album ones were album-artist not artist-album given that they are thumbs for albums not artists as then they would be sorted in folder in album order, again making it easy to analyse what has been generated. OK fair enough if you need to maintain backward compatability, though I thought the thumbs were a cache to aid speed and were auto generated by MP when scanning so could be easily re-created by a rescan. I still find it a bit unnerving to have an extra 10,000 duplicate thumbs generated, even if they do take up minimal space. I can see duplicates being a possibility with no guaranteed unique ident for the album thumb names when based on artist and album + being harder to locate for deletion if records are removed etc, but It's all no big deal really in the scheme of things. I will have to retag all loose files, not part of complete albumsclearing the album tag that may clean things up a bit. cheers for your time [/QUOTE]

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