PetabytesPlease Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 I have tired to get my files on the pool to keep the thumbnails but they always get deleted even though the thumbnail cache size on C drive appears to still have stored them; how do i resolve this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jaga Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 (edited) Sounds like you might need to rebuild the Windows thumbnail cache. It's a good thing to do periodically even if you aren't having problems. You didn't say what OS you are on, so I'm assuming it's W10. Here are some instructions for doing both the thumbnail cache, and icon cache. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/rebuild-icon-clear-thumbnail-cache-windows-10 Separately, I use a shell extension called Icaros, which gives Explorer better control and caching options for thumbnails (including indexing of specified folders). If you've cleared your cache and Windows still isn't displaying them properly, you might give it a try. Edited July 8, 2018 by Jaga Added official link for Icaros Christopher (Drashna) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PetabytesPlease Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 Sorry forgot to say that i use Windows 7 I have rebuilt, the windows thumbnail and icon cache multiple times as in deleted the "thumbnail cache" option in disk clean up Note that i actually used this trick to stop the cache from auto deleting and rebuilding when you have a lot of thumbs but i completed delted these modifications and still no help I will leave some pictures on my SSD to see if the issue is native to the pooled drives now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PetabytesPlease Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 Yep, it only occurs on my pooled drives so its not got anything to do with windows... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PetabytesPlease Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 Please advise me on what i need to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Unfortunately, I don't think that there is a good solution here. I suspect that the issue is that it's reading the thumbs.db file from each folder, and ... it's indexing each disk and generating them in those folders. So the content may not be the same from disk to disk. And that is causing the issue. But this is one of those things that it is very hard to reproduce. The simplest option may be to turn off thumbnail generation. Otherwise, are you able to trigger the behavior specifically, or does it just happen randomly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jaga Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Windows 7 shouldn't be natively creating the thumbs.db files though. The last Windows OS to do that and rely on them was Windows XP. A bunch of helpful information on thumbnails in Windows is here: https://www.ghacks.net/2014/03/12/thumbnail-cache-files-windows/ Starting with Vista, they were moved to a central location for Windows management: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\thumbcache_xxx.db If they are being re-created on your system PetaBytes, I'm not sure why. I triple-checked my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 media server, and none of the movie/picture folders have the files in them (visible OR hidden). This procedure (and a reboot after) might help your issue: https://www.sitepoint.com/switch-off-thumbs-db-in-windows/ I still maintain a 3rd party utility like Icaros will help the most. What it does (in a nutshell) is maintain it's own cache of thumbnails, so that *if* Windows loses them for a folder, Icaros will supply them back to Windows instead of it having to re-generate them slowly. Christopher (Drashna) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PetabytesPlease Posted September 5, 2018 Author Share Posted September 5, 2018 Firstly apologizes for bumping an "old" thread" but i have had other things to sort out To confirm, only on my pooled drives the thumbnails for my videos, pictures etc always get re-created, but the cache file is still there. I used this trick to disable windows from deleting and starting the cache from scratch which it does when it gets too big https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/177357-thumbnail-cache-prevent-windows-deleting.html https://www.sitepoint.com/switch-off-thumbs-db-in-windows/ - This link appears to turn off thumbnail creation, thus i would not have any thumbnails for all my pictures and videos... The whole point of the thread was to allow me to have thumbnails cached and not have to continuously re-create them To confirm this only occurs with pooled drives so the issue clearly lies with stable bit, i should not have to get third party tools to resolve the "issue" with your software The software Icaros does not seem to do picture thumbnails but only videos which again does not fit my needs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jaga Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 4 hours ago, PetabytesPlease said: The software Icaros does not seem to do picture thumbnails but only videos which again does not fit my needs Sure it will. You have to change the Thumbnailing Preset in Icaros to "Most Known". It will then include images and so on. You can even add your own file types to that list, provided it supports them (or the OS does). 4 hours ago, PetabytesPlease said: To confirm this only occurs with pooled drives so the issue clearly lies with stable bit, i should not have to get third party tools to resolve the "issue" with your software I think if it was an issue with Drivepool, everyone would see it and report it. But I'll step back from the question now and let higher powers handle it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I have tired to get my files on the pool to keep the thumbnails but they always get deleted even though the thumbnail cache size on C drive appears to still have stored them; how do i resolve this?
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