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<blockquote data-quote="mbuzina" data-source="post: 137676" data-attributes="member: 12382">That is not true. The Thumbnails are generated and stored in the MOP Dir/Thumbs/Pictures folder on the local machine (go &amp; have a look, you will find each picture you'd ever browsed 2 time, large &amp; small). But please remember, the client / server environment is still new to MP (with the TV Engine 3 esp.). So I guess that there will be a need to change this behaviour. I already tried to delve in using microsofts thumbs.db file (which caches thumbnails for MS Explorer), but I have a few difficulties (In XP this works, but Vista does things differently &amp; I could not find a way to tell windows to start generating the thumbnails).I guess the biggest issue in performance, is that the MP Client will load each photo in your directory to the client, then save 2 thumbnails locally. When this is done, browsing should be quicker. A better solution (for the future) would be: The server generates the thumbnails in a background process (best would be to use the same thumbs that the OS uses, but otherwise use local thumbs) and then to server them with it's own protocol to the client. I started working on a real pictures db a while ago (I wanted to sort my pics by date taken instead of file browsing), but I am not finished an my time for this is almost gone (2 children, new house, new project for job...). So if there are other devs what want to continue, I can basically give some ideas input (and maybe some old code) and just a little time.Who whants to join?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mbuzina, post: 137676, member: 12382"] That is not true. The Thumbnails are generated and stored in the MOP Dir/Thumbs/Pictures folder on the local machine (go & have a look, you will find each picture you'd ever browsed 2 time, large & small). But please remember, the client / server environment is still new to MP (with the TV Engine 3 esp.). So I guess that there will be a need to change this behaviour. I already tried to delve in using microsofts thumbs.db file (which caches thumbnails for MS Explorer), but I have a few difficulties (In XP this works, but Vista does things differently & I could not find a way to tell windows to start generating the thumbnails). I guess the biggest issue in performance, is that the MP Client will load each photo in your directory to the client, then save 2 thumbnails locally. When this is done, browsing should be quicker. A better solution (for the future) would be: The server generates the thumbnails in a background process (best would be to use the same thumbs that the OS uses, but otherwise use local thumbs) and then to server them with it's own protocol to the client. I started working on a real pictures db a while ago (I wanted to sort my pics by date taken instead of file browsing), but I am not finished an my time for this is almost gone (2 children, new house, new project for job...). So if there are other devs what want to continue, I can basically give some ideas input (and maybe some old code) and just a little time. Who whants to join? [/QUOTE]

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