Thumbnail Cache Not Working on Large Number of Files

ozzbot · Post by **ozzbot** » 09 Jun 2005 19:49

I am using 4.00.0117. I have a Browser Tab with 339 pictures. I have the thumbnails set at 128 x 128 pixels. Tracker creates the thumbnail cache and then says "339 new thumbs done and cached", but after re-opening Tracker it recreates the thumbnail cache again. If I go to the cache folder, it never creates the cache file. I can interrupt the cache creation (by pressing ESC) and it will create the cache file for the thumbs it had created before interruption.

Tracker does create the thumbnail cache on other Browser Tabs that contain only a few pictures.

Using Windows 2000 w/SP2.

Post by **admin** » 09 Jun 2005 21:26

Yes, unfortunately I could reproduce this problem. It's a memory issue. I have 512MB RAM and could create about 600 thumbs sized 128 x 128, more than that would result in what you described.
At the moment I can only offer an obvious workaround: reduce the number of pics per folder, or the size of the thumbnails.
And, the next version will tell you if it failed to write the cache.

ozzbot · Post by **ozzbot** » 24 Jun 2005 14:39

I have a couple of thousand images. I hope one day you can fix the memory issue so that users can create a large number of 128 pixel thumbnails.

Post by **admin** » 24 Jun 2005 15:39

ozzbot wrote:I have a couple of thousand images.

Why have all of them in one folder? Why not organize them in subfolders?

EdwinMcCainMessenger · Post by **EdwinMcCainMessenger** » 13 Jul 2005 04:35

Hi! Well, I was writing about this problem, but now I see it is everyone's problem. HOWEVER, I have to say that I was SOOOOO impressed to find this program AND finding it is free! Many thanks! It does absolutely everything I need... EXCEPT I also have thousands of photos in 2 or 3 different folders. I have to have them there. So, for every reason I LOVE this program being set aside because it won't draw the thumbnails for my photos, I have to uninstall and look for another program.

I currently have over 36,000 photos on this computer. It will gather then using the "FIND" option. But them it ties up the program while it draws the thumbnails. For instance, right now it says, "Creating thumb 12790/36455. (Press ESC to abort.) Once it gets to the end, it starts over... so I can't never get control to save the file for another program to use.

I hope that somewhere in the future, the limit of thumbnails can be related only to the memory your computer has. Again, thanks for putting such an awesome program out there for ME and for FREE! I just wish I could take advantage of it! It is KILLING me that this doesn't work!

QUESTION: I NEED these thumbnails with each file name!!!!! Is it possible to save these reports WITH the thumbnails attached to each file, rather than just a text file?

Regards,
A.

Post by **admin** » 18 Jul 2005 11:36

EdwinMcCainMessenger wrote:I hope that somewhere in the future, the limit of thumbnails can be related only to the memory your computer has.

I hope so, too! It's on top of my todo-list for version 4.10.

EdwinMcCainMessenger wrote:QUESTION: I NEED these thumbnails with each file name!!!!! Is it possible to save these reports WITH the thumbnails attached to each file, rather than just a text file?

You mean an HTML-format, for example?

EdwinMcCainMessenger · Post by **EdwinMcCainMessenger** » 18 Jul 2005 23:02

I would love to be able to PRINT a report. But with thousands of photos on my hard drive, it would be better to import it into EXCEL WITH the photos. That way I could see it all, but not have to print it. Or print parts of it.

The main details I use besides the thumbnail of the print are standard fields like Date Created, Date Modified, Size of file, etc. Other details would be icing on the cake.

THE BIG QUESTION IS THIS: Can you put me on a mailing list to be NOTIFIED of the new version????

Thanks again...

Post by **admin** » 19 Jul 2005 10:27

I think you will find some image view app that does the trick.

EdwinMcCainMessenger wrote:THE BIG QUESTION IS THIS: Can you put me on a mailing list to be NOTIFIED of the new version????

The small answer is: there is no mailing list.

But help is near: log into the forum and watch this topic: http://www.trackerv3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4 Then you'll be notified whenever I upload a new BETA version.

EdwinMcCainMessenger · Post by **EdwinMcCainMessenger** » 19 Jul 2005 20:23

Image view apps don't do entire directory catalogs. Just wished I could do a directory print and/or save of the entire hard drive... and the images would include a thumbnail.

i will watch that topic. thanks.

A.

Post by **admin** » 19 Jul 2005 20:38

Just curious: why do you want your thumbnails on paper?

Post by **admin** » 26 Jul 2005 15:47

EdwinMcCainMessenger wrote:I hope that somewhere in the future, the limit of thumbnails can be related only to the memory your computer has.

The future has arrived 5 minutes ago!

Post by **admin** » 26 Jul 2005 15:48

ozzbot wrote:I have a couple of thousand images. I hope one day you can fix the memory issue so that users can create a large number of 128 pixel thumbnails.

The day is today.

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