CD scanner seems to be generating thumbnails, since it takes to long. But then when I first look at the thumbnails in a folder UPE seems to be regenerating them, again because it is so slow to display them.
If I then leave the folder and return to it the thumbs pop right up as expected (even after exiting the program or rebooting the system).
So, what's the point of the CD scan if it doesn't generate the thumbnails?
Thanks!
CD scan issue with 8.0
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heinz-oz
How do you expect any program to write thumbnail info to a, I presume, finalised CD?
If the program was to store thumbnails for any CD you ever looked at, the next thing you would complain about, would be what is all this garbage cluttering up my HDD?
Sorry, but what you are asking is not feasible. Would be a nice feature in your particular case, but generally speaking, no.
If the program was to store thumbnails for any CD you ever looked at, the next thing you would complain about, would be what is all this garbage cluttering up my HDD?
Sorry, but what you are asking is not feasible. Would be a nice feature in your particular case, but generally speaking, no.
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garyross
HUH?
No, I wouldn't expect thumbs to be written to the CD.
Scanning creates a pseudo-drive that's visible when using the program, and that's actually stored on the HD. It mimics the file-structure on the CD.
My question is, why does the CD scan bother to build this entity without populating it with thumbs while it's at it? It certainly takes a long time to do it, as if it were processing the images and not just getting the directory structure. Yet when I open a folder on the pseudo-drive for the first time the program has to go out to the CD and generate the thumbnails. Thereafter they pop right up because they are stored then on the hard drive in the pseudo-drive metafile.
I suspect that the CD scanner either isn't designed properly or is buggy.
Scanning creates a pseudo-drive that's visible when using the program, and that's actually stored on the HD. It mimics the file-structure on the CD.
My question is, why does the CD scan bother to build this entity without populating it with thumbs while it's at it? It certainly takes a long time to do it, as if it were processing the images and not just getting the directory structure. Yet when I open a folder on the pseudo-drive for the first time the program has to go out to the CD and generate the thumbnails. Thereafter they pop right up because they are stored then on the hard drive in the pseudo-drive metafile.
I suspect that the CD scanner either isn't designed properly or is buggy.
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heinz-oz
Look at it this way, if the program would do what you want it to do, when would you want it to delete the thumbnails again? Try to imagine, you have several hundred CD's with images, you scan all of them at one point in time, how big would your hard disk have to be to store all that information? Kind of negates the advantage of having your images on CD, I think.
Not that I have ever used the scanning function, but I would not want my PC to store all these thumbnails.
Not that I have ever used the scanning function, but I would not want my PC to store all these thumbnails.
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heinz-oz
I may be the wrong person to ask about this, hopefully there will be another user around soon with some more insight.
Just to understand what it was that you were trying to do, I went into my PhotoExplorer, have version 8.5 though. I never even thought of using this function. If I want to know what is on a CD, and I have a number of them already, adding every week to it, I just use the WIN Explorer in XP. It's fast, even though I have stopped it from creating a thumbnail database for every folder, same reasoning as I gave to you above.
Just to understand what it was that you were trying to do, I went into my PhotoExplorer, have version 8.5 though. I never even thought of using this function. If I want to know what is on a CD, and I have a number of them already, adding every week to it, I just use the WIN Explorer in XP. It's fast, even though I have stopped it from creating a thumbnail database for every folder, same reasoning as I gave to you above.
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garyross
Disk space not the issue
The point of thumbnails is that they don't take a lot of hard drive space, especially when consolidated into a metafile database. And these days who, except the video folks, are really worrying about filling up a disk?
Actually, though I've been saying CD -- my clip art, photos, etc. are on several DVD's! Though the folders on them have meaningful names, most often the file names don't, so I need to visually browse -- as efficiently as possible.
I'm thinking about buying ACDSee, though you're right that XP Explorer is usable.
Actually, though I've been saying CD -- my clip art, photos, etc. are on several DVD's! Though the folders on them have meaningful names, most often the file names don't, so I need to visually browse -- as efficiently as possible.
I'm thinking about buying ACDSee, though you're right that XP Explorer is usable.