stesind wrote: > > To use 15Gig of space just for previews is a little bit too much. > Lightroom only uses 3.5. And Shotwell starts eats a lot of performance > after startup for generating the previews. >
(bumping up this old thread) This is a very good point. I'm a new user giving Shotwell a try and I was very surprised finding how much space ~/.shotwell folder occupies after I imported all my NEF and PEF RAW photos. Immediately after I found out what is the mimic file used for, I started to look for a setting in Preferences which would allow me to control quality/compression ratio of mimic files, so I don't have to sacrifice too much of disk space. I believe, such more advanced control over properties of mimic file would be a good compromise. Those who like best quality of previews could use defaults, but those who don't really care about previews and process RAW anyway using other software, they could increase compression ratio. What you think about it? Best regards, ----- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net -- View this message in context: http://shotwell.3510.www.nabble.com/Shotwell-mimics-folder-tp21302p37967.html Sent from the Shotwell mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
