On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:56:34 +1100, "Getho"
wrote:
Thanks Julie,
I’ve tried irfanview previously – it doesn’t cache thumbnails, which means it must constuct them each time, which on 250MB images can take a wee while! Geth
You have four options:
1) Use a caching image viewer like Thumbs Plus and have thousands of small thumbnail files in your image directories, making browsing slower and wasting space (depending on your filesystem, half the cluster size per file).
2) Use a caching image browser like the one built in Paintshop Pro and have a huge (depending on thumbnail settings and filesize) cache file in each directory you visit.
3) Use a non-caching image viewer like Irfanview and spend some time waiting for reading 250 MB images.
4) Like 3 but cleanup/sort the directories to have less images per directory. If you start sorting an unsorted collection, it may help to create numbered directories and use windows explorer to roughly put 200 files in each directory.
Making smaller directories won’t help in case 1 and 2. Using a caching viewer/browser becomes really bad if you move lots of images using the windows explorer – then you need to update the thumbnails every time you use the browser. In case 1 things are even worse because of the lots of thumbnail files between the actual image files.
I’d really recommend case 4. 🙂
Michael