[Bug 79943] it should be possible to limit the amount of disk space used by thumbnails (.thumbnails directory)

[john smeed]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79943


john smeed <jrsmeed at xtra.co.nz> changed:

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--- Comment #91 from john smeed <jrsmeed xtra co nz>  2012-01-04 10:06:39 ---
Using a single directory and cryptic file names for thumbnails has created this
problem. Because they are all in one place it is easy to measure the space used
by thumbnails, unlike windows XP, where there is a thumbnail file in each
indexed directory.

The thumbnail directory on my computer is far too large to be efficient. If
more than, (5000 files. a guess), are in a single directory access times rise
significantly. My guess is that 63,000 files would cause a massive slow down in
access time.
A better solution is a thumbnail file with the name of the indexed folder, this
is how windows does it. This has two benefits, firstly this file can be
compressed, secondly unwanted thumbnail files, can be easily removed. I expect
that this would improve loading time for indexed directories.

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