location and size of the X5 database (need to minimise)

[greyguru]

Just installed Paintshop pro X5 on my new Win 8.1 machine as a secondary editing program.

I use another program to manage and tag my images. I'm not saying it's better, but it's good and I'm not going to re-catalog 10's of thousands of images. I don't need Paint Shop to duplicate that function.

My problem is that X5 is building its database in appdata, and I can't move that, and it's on my C: drive which is a solid state device and not too big, so I want to reserve the space there for important things. Anyway, I'd like to know if I can prevent PaintShop from making a database of every image or folder that I look at, or, at least, keep it to a minimum; or in the last resort, allow it to do its thing, but put the data where I want it.

In summary can I:

• Stop it cataloging;
  Limit what it catalogs;
  or Change the location of where it catalogs.

What happens if I periodically delete the files in C:\Users\Myname\AppData\Local\Corel PaintShop Pro\15.0?

Is any of this changed (for the better) in X7?

Many thanks for any insights on this issue.

[Kathy_9]

Maybe this will help. http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread. ... -Organizer

[greyguru]

Thanks for the fast reply. I have marked the database r-o and I'll see what it does.

After posting, and before it was approved, I found the context menu that allows one to turn off cataloging for a specific folder, but when I did that, I could not even browse to my images (in the exclusion zone) so that wasn't a good option.

[Forriner]

In your original post you said you didn't need the manage and tag capabilities of PSP, so turning off a folder was good idea.

In PSP menu File/Preferences/General progeam preferences/Manage you can select folders and file types that you don't want to catalog.
You should probably, just in case, uncheck the 'allow cataloging to complete after exiting the application' option.

When you open a folder in the Manage tab of PSP, the database you mentioned is built, and the thumbnails are made.

If you open a folder in the Computer tab, the database isn't updated but thumbnails are made.

So if you use the browser at all, you're going to get the thumbnails, one folder per folder. On my system, I have ~53000 thumbnail files in 940 folders, totaling 1.9GB. I'd love to find a way to link folder names in the thumbnail folders to the real name on disk. DC7ebdAFFC7f2D731Fc1080cfbc4F83C doesn't tell me much Does anyone have any info on that?

And, in my experience, the imagedb.db is somehow slowly built up anyway. I haven't taken the time to find out why, I just delete the database periodically. You can also delete the thumbnail folders if you want, and PSP will start rebuilding as you browse.

In my experience, even in Windows Explorer, when you drag a file to PSP's edit workspace, you get a thumbnail in MY Tray of the Organizer palette, and a corresponding folder and thumbnail in the \users\etc\ thumbnail folder.
I haven't tried dragging (or right click and open with PSP) a file to PSP from a blocked folder. Maybe no thumbnail, I don't know.

Chaotic, but maybe some helpful info.