Thumbnails regenerating despite being cached

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Megalith
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Thumbnails regenerating despite being cached

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I am experiencing this with a particularly large folder that contains over 4,000 subfolders. I have tried deleting the cache file, but that doesn't seem to help.

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Re: Thumbnails regenerating despite being cached

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Check your settings in Configuration below "Cache thumbnails on disk". Make sure "Include local disks" is checked and any other settings are as you desire. Ensure the contents of your cache folder designated is not being deleted or wiped for some reason. You are sure it is image thumbnails that were already generated that are being recreated and it's not creating thumbnails for images that XYplorer hadn't done yet. Personally I have "Create all thumbnails at once" checked. Once they're created properly, you shouldn't see any more thumbnail generation unless you've added or renamed images.
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Megalith
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Re: Thumbnails regenerating despite being cached

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Yes, the settings are correct.

I don't know what the exact trigger is, but XYplorer will inevitably generate thumbnails for every folder/file again.

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Re: Thumbnails regenerating despite being cached

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That's strange. How are you saving settings? Manually or save on exit? Are you having any issues with any other settings not being saved? After exiting XY and restarting, are the thumbnail settings all as you saved them? Is your thumbnail folder as shown in Configuration, a sub-folder of XYplorer main folder or somewhere else designated by you?
Edit: You could also specify a different thumbnail folder temporarily to see if the result is different. You could check if the result is the same in fresh instance of XYplorer as well.
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Re: Thumbnails regenerating despite being cached

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And one more question: Are you using the latest version?

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Re: Thumbnails regenerating despite being cached

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Yes, I am using the latest version.

The strange thing is that the thumbnails will stay put immediately after they are generated, but when I go to the folder later, XYplorer will attempt to regenerate all of the thumbnails again. I don't know what could be triggering that.

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Re: Thumbnails regenerating despite being cached

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Let's check if the cache is generated at all. Go to the Thumbs folder. You can use this as path in the address bar:

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<xythumbs>
For each folder there should be 2 files in this path, one DBITS and one DAT2, eg:

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94528a9d75677df70295204019af42fe.dbits
94528a9d75677df70295204019af42fe.dat2
If you open the DAT2 in Hex view (use the Raw View Tab in the Info Panel) you see the folder it is associated to.

Does your folder generate such a file pair in the Thumbs folder?

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