On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Alexander Wagner <aw-li...@stellarcom.org>
wrote:
> On 12/30/2014 10:03 PM, johannes hanika wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> we reworked the lighttable thumbnail cache:
>>
>> https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pull/803
>>
>> and would like to merge that soon. it's substantially different from the
>> current cache, in a couple of points:
>>
>> - it doesn't delete thumbnails, ever.
>> - it caches thumbnails out to disk, as jpg (similar location as before,
>> ~/.cache/darktable/*, but single files per thumbnail)
>>
>
> Does it still use/obeye --cachdir?
>
yes.
>
> > let us know what you think.
>
> Could you probably consider a config option (in the GUI if you don't mind)
> to set this to some other location? There're some workflows where eternal
> storage of thumbnails is not sensible (then /tmp comes to mind) and also
> $HOME/.cache can be quite a bad location for huge caches. (Thinking of
> backups.)
>
> Otherwise: +1
>
> you can create all thumbnails offline, using
>>
>> darktable-cli --generate-cache --core --library /path/to/your/library.db
>>
>
> +1 :)
>
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>
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