Generating thumbnails for all images at once (1 Viewer)

[miked]

Currently, in order for the thumbnails for a folder of images to generated, I have to actually go into each folder and wait for the thumbs to be created.

Is there a way that I can just say "Create thumbnails for all image sin this folder and walk away? The one by each thing is a bit silly for more than about 4 folders of images, and I have about 80 folders.

Anyone?

...Mike

 

[miked]

Just to clarify, what I mean is the I have a folder called "Portfolio" and in it are about 70-80 subfolders, some nested. What I want is to be able to tell Media Portal to make all thumbnails for all images in all subfolders.

Is this possiblle?

...Mike

 

[ronilse]

Hi,
If this it's in My Pictures can't you use "Create Thumbs" on the left menu?

Regards
Roy

 

[miked]

That only works for the current folder though. I want it to do the current folder and all subfolders as well.

...Mike

 

[miked]

Anyone else have any ideas? This is killing me. If I could program in windows I would certainly give it a whirl. But I can't.

...Mike

 

[bigj]

Hi Miked, can't offer you any solutions.
But wanted to say that I spent some time last weekend looking for an offline utility to create folder.jpg files (recursively and from commandline).
Plenty of hits for mp3/coverart related stuff but nothing for plain old .jpgs.
It should be pretty simple for a tool to build a composite of images - I thought an offline tool would offer some choices of styling - but it doesn't exist as far as I can tell

BigJ.

 

[tomtom21000]

If you do 10 folders each evening, you´ll have a nice setup in a week for your 80 folders ...

tomtom

 

[hst]

Hi all,
had the same problem with hundreds of folders ...
So I've written a script (Bash in CYGWIN) to generate all thumbnails.
I first calculate the filename to put the thumbnail to the ..\thumbs\pictures\folder using a DOS-CRC algorythm (that's what I found in MP source code) . Then I'm using convert from ImageMagix to create both thumbnails (small and large). Works fine for me ...
Cheers, Hans

 

[miked]

I sure would love to get my hands on that script Hans. Any way you could email it to me?

...Mike

 

[allanp81]

I'd be interested in this as well!