Best photo viewer

[bossi]

I work with 500,000 images +
Always use XYPlorer for viewing, nothing else comes close, in my opinion.

Use "Duck Link Screen Capture" Free and easy

Use Fast Stone viewer ONLY for "Contact Sheet Builder"

Use "Picasa 3" for quick rotate and crop jobs (50 images +)

how do you cope with speed ? XYplorer Thumbs fetching speed for a gallery of 1000s of images is slow compared to some other specialized sofwares that use mulithreading and SQL.
its the only complaint i can make about XY though

[jaywalker32]

how do you cope with speed ? XYplorer Thumbs fetching speed for a gallery of 1000s of images is slow compared to some other specialized sofwares that use mulithreading and SQL.
its the only complaint i can make about XY though

Are you caching the thumbnails? There's a setting in the Thumbnails section. I have folders with 1000s of images as well, and the thumbnails load instantly if they're cached. Cache to an ssd for even better performance.

But if you're talking about the building of the thumbnails the first time, then yeah, it takes the normal amount of time depending on the quality you chose. For that, you can have a simple script that iterates through all your image folders and pre-builds the cache when you're away from the pc.

[bossi]

Are you caching the thumbnails? There's a setting in the Thumbnails section. I have folders with 1000s of images as well, and the thumbnails load instantly if they're cached. Cache to an ssd for even better performance.

But if you're talking about the building of the thumbnails the first time, then yeah, it takes the normal amount of time depending on the quality you chose. For that, you can have a simple script that iterates through all your image folders and pre-builds the cache when you're away from the pc.

Sounds like i should give it a new try then , about scripting though , you mean literaly goto each folder in thumbnail view and let it load ? i get the impression that thumbnailing only works on visible files ? only scroling down would trigger thumbnailing the rest ?

[jaywalker32]

There is a setting in the Thumbnails section to 'Create all thumbs at once' so that it generates for all images without having to scroll.
And yes, the script goes into each folder and sets the view to Thumbnails #1 (if already in that view, then refresh). But like i said, you can have it run in a background instance or when you're away from the pc.

The script I used is something like this. There may be newer/better ways to do this (this is very old), but it works for me so never really looked into optimizing it.

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"Generate Thumbnails All (no recurse) : generate_thumbs_all_current"
	genThumbs(<curpath>);
	
"Generate Thumbnails All : generate_thumbs_all"
	$dirs = quicksearch("/d");
	foreach($dir, $dirs, "<crlf>"){
		genThumbs($dir);
	}

"Generate Thumbnails New : generate_thumbs_new"
	$dirs = quicksearch("ageM:< 2d and /d",,"|");
	foreach($dir,$dirs){
		genThumbs($dir);
	}

"Generate Thumbnails Selected : generate_thumbs_sel"
	$dirs = get("SelectedItemsPathNames", "|"); 
	foreach($dir,$dirs){
		genThumbs($dir);
	}

function genThumbs($dir){
	setting "CacheThumbsReadOnly", 0;
	goto $dir;
	if(get("View") != 4){
		#306;  //set view to Thumbnails #1
	}
	else{
		#1001; //refresh view
	}
}

[bossi]

ah yes i remember now , thats the setting needed .
thx for the Script though for now i wont run anything , since x64 is not stable enough , waiting till it becomes more stable

[rod222]

For my 500,000 images
when I first boot and use XYPlorer, it takes around 30-40 seconds to find any text string.
After that, it is almost instant, for any other random search, Fabulously fast.

[bossi]

i actually use now Icaros Thumbnail Provider .
it creates a separate cache dynamically and XY receives in an instant .
esp pleasant on 4K video files

[bossi]

The script I used is something like this. There may be newer/better ways to do this (this is very old), but it works for me so never really looked into optimizing it.

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ps finally got around to utilize it , because i fool did not realize "create all Thumbs at once" does not work on searches it seems ...

anyway ,

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	foreach $dir , $dirs{
		goto $dir;
      }

if done via Thumbview already generates the thumbs
using :

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		else{
			#1001; //refresh view
		}

just reloads the page to be loaded a 2nd time )