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The main problem with the functionality for the "My pictures" is the speed and flexibility. The idea of doing thumbs in separate folders isn't very flexible when dealing with moving, deleting and renaming folder. If deleting a picture folder, the caching of that folder would persist and you can imagine how big this cache folder would be in a couple of years…

Why is it so hard to implement the “Microsoft solution”? And if so, why is the thumb creation process very slow? I am an IT-manager in a newspaper and dealing with pictures is one of the main processes in our branch. One application we use in our newspaper that are doing picture caching like MP, is a software called “Fotostation” from Fotoware. This software creates thumbs even faster than the native OS solution from Microsoft. But deleting, renaming and moving would make a lot of “ghost” thumbs even with this software as far as I now. Haven’t actually tested this with the latest version of the software… but the speed is more than good enough.

When It comes to usability of having a “thumb creation” button on a higher level than having to open each folder separately, I agree that it would be helpful when dealing with thousands of pictures like now when I have installed a new HTPC. But when dealing with new pictures from memory cards and such, the thumb creation waiting time is a big pain. Often I’m just gonna have quick look at the pictures before I categorize them and move them out of the mem card and in to my picture hierarchy. But that’s how I do things…

KRL

<blockquote data-quote="krl69" data-source="post: 190190" data-attributes="member: 25681">The main problem with the functionality for the &quot;My pictures&quot; is the speed and flexibility. The idea of doing thumbs in separate folders isn't very flexible when dealing with moving, deleting and renaming folder. If deleting a picture folder, the caching of that folder would persist and you can imagine how big this cache folder would be in a couple of years…Why is it so hard to implement the “Microsoft solution”? And if so, why is the thumb creation process very slow? I am an IT-manager in a newspaper and dealing with pictures is one of the main processes in our branch. One application we use in our newspaper that are doing picture caching like MP, is a software called “Fotostation” from Fotoware. This software creates thumbs even faster than the native OS solution from Microsoft. But deleting, renaming and moving would make a lot of “ghost” thumbs even with this software as far as I now. Haven’t actually tested this with the latest version of the software… but the speed is more than good enough.When It comes to usability of having a “thumb creation” button on a higher level than having to open each folder separately, I agree that it would be helpful when dealing with thousands of pictures like now when I have installed a new HTPC. But when dealing with new pictures from memory cards and such, the thumb creation waiting time is a big pain. Often I’m just gonna have quick look at the pictures before I categorize them and move them out of the mem card and in to my picture hierarchy. But that’s how I do things… <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />KRL</blockquote>

[QUOTE="krl69, post: 190190, member: 25681"] The main problem with the functionality for the "My pictures" is the speed and flexibility. The idea of doing thumbs in separate folders isn't very flexible when dealing with moving, deleting and renaming folder. If deleting a picture folder, the caching of that folder would persist and you can imagine how big this cache folder would be in a couple of years… Why is it so hard to implement the “Microsoft solution”? And if so, why is the thumb creation process very slow? I am an IT-manager in a newspaper and dealing with pictures is one of the main processes in our branch. One application we use in our newspaper that are doing picture caching like MP, is a software called “Fotostation” from Fotoware. This software creates thumbs even faster than the native OS solution from Microsoft. But deleting, renaming and moving would make a lot of “ghost” thumbs even with this software as far as I now. Haven’t actually tested this with the latest version of the software… but the speed is more than good enough. When It comes to usability of having a “thumb creation” button on a higher level than having to open each folder separately, I agree that it would be helpful when dealing with thousands of pictures like now when I have installed a new HTPC. But when dealing with new pictures from memory cards and such, the thumb creation waiting time is a big pain. Often I’m just gonna have quick look at the pictures before I categorize them and move them out of the mem card and in to my picture hierarchy. But that’s how I do things… :-) KRL [/QUOTE]