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<blockquote data-quote="HappyTalk" data-source="post: 246022" data-attributes="member: 22671">Like others, I don't want these files created at all! MP has become a thumbnail generation factory. The music app creates 10's of thousands of the little blighters. Auto-creating these files in EVERY pictures folder that then appear when you're viewing pictures/slideshows is madness. I'm using v0.2.3.0 which I guess predates this half-house fix (please at least add an option to the thumbnails config page to NOT create these/ANY thumbnails period!)The music app used to generate 10,000's of them! but fortunately there are now options to turn this off, photos needs one also. I guess I'll have to try and make mediaportal run under a different user account and restrict that account to read-only access for the photos folder.OK took a little bit of working out but here's a fix that works1) ensure secondary logon service is running2) create a new user called mediaportal (or something else if you prefer), making them a member of the administrator group (if required)3) goto your photos top level folder &amp; do properties|security|add a new permission for user mediaportal and tick deny write 4) create a batch file with this line in (adjust user/path if req)runas /savecred /user:mediaportal &quot;c:\program files\mediaportal\mediaportal.exe&quot;5) run it and enter the password for user mediaportal6) next time you run it it won't ask for the password again, so you can add a shortcut to the batch file in startup if you want it to run as this user on boot. So now MP runs as this new user who has been DENIED permission to go creating files in places I don't want it to. If I catch it doing any other funny business anywhere else I'll deny it write access there as well. I tested it, solves the problem, bit of a sledgehammer but the nut has cracked.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HappyTalk, post: 246022, member: 22671"] Like others, I don't want these files created at all! MP has become a thumbnail generation factory. The music app creates 10's of thousands of the little blighters. Auto-creating these files in EVERY pictures folder that then appear when you're viewing pictures/slideshows is madness. I'm using v0.2.3.0 which I guess predates this half-house fix (please at least add an option to the thumbnails config page to NOT create these/ANY thumbnails period!) The music app used to generate 10,000's of them! but fortunately there are now options to turn this off, photos needs one also. I guess I'll have to try and make mediaportal run under a different user account and restrict that account to read-only access for the photos folder. OK took a little bit of working out but here's a fix that works 1) ensure secondary logon service is running 2) create a new user called mediaportal (or something else if you prefer), making them a member of the administrator group (if required) 3) goto your photos top level folder & do properties|security|add a new permission for user mediaportal and tick deny write 4) create a batch file with this line in (adjust user/path if req) runas /savecred /user:mediaportal "c:\program files\mediaportal\mediaportal.exe" 5) run it and enter the password for user mediaportal 6) next time you run it it won't ask for the password again, so you can add a shortcut to the batch file in startup if you want it to run as this user on boot. So now MP runs as this new user who has been DENIED permission to go creating files in places I don't want it to. If I catch it doing any other funny business anywhere else I'll deny it write access there as well. I tested it, solves the problem, bit of a sledgehammer but the nut has cracked. [/QUOTE]

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