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Unnecessary Thumbnails being created
ISSUE TYPE
- Bug Report
GEEQIE VERSION
Geeqie 1.5.1
Standard current Ubuntu package
OS / DISTRIBUTION
Xubuntu 19.10
SUMMARY
I recently noticed that Geeqie is building thumbnails for the same image file when accessed by different paths. For example, given:
/pictures/landscapes/image_01.jpg
and a symbolic link:
/x -> /pictures/landscapes/
If you navigate to /pictures/landscapes/, a thumbnail for image_01.jpg will be created. And iv you navigate to /x another thumbnail is generated. Of course this is most noticeable when you have a large collection of pictures in a directory with multiple links to it.
It seems as though Geeqie should resolve the paths and only build/access a single thumbnail for any given directory.
This seems like a bug to me, but reclassify it as a feature request if that is more appropriate.
This still applies even with the current builds. I work with thousands of images and move them around quite a bit, especially when editing them. This behavior crews up a lot of CPU and time when rebuilding the thumbnail files over and over. It also leaves tons of unused thumbnails hanging around taking up disk space. I would be great if there were a method of tagging the files other than by the current path so that the thumbnail didn't need to be regenerated every time a file was moved but not modified.
If you are referring to orphaned thumbnails, that can be handled.
Orphaned thumbnails can be deleted by running cache maintenance from start-up/cron/anacron. It is described here: http://www.geeqie.org/help/GuideReferenceManagement.html
Thumbnail handling is a problem, as you may have seen in other issues.
I understand that it's a complex problem. Thanks for any consideration you can give to the problem.
I have been manually deleting orphaned thumbnails, but the suggestion to create a cron job to do it automatically is a great one. I'm off to do it now! Thanks again!
And BTW, Geeqie is a fantastic program that I use all the time. I usually have three or four geeqie window open at a time spread over my eight desktops on two screen! I do a lot of image work. I really appreciate all the effort that has gone into and continues on its development, so please see my comments and reports as suggestions and not complaints. Regards.
I still had in mind your original post and thought about it from time to time. I thought is was from maybe last year or so. I was astounded that it was 4 years ago :-(
Question: When running
geeqie --cache-maintenance
is path the path to the thumbnail cache (/u/jeff/.cache/thumbnails in my case) or is it the top-level path to the image files?
The manual page doesn't specify.