OK, so now comes the weird part. If you have 5000+ movies over a network store, you would increase the startup time by quite a bit accessing images across each DVD folder. You will encounter network latency times, seek times on the hard drive (each time you jumped to a new folder), Windows driver delays accessing the NIC card, etc. A database would make a lot more sense...
So I deleted the images in the DVD folders on my local hard drive. I closed MC21, then reopened it, and images were still there. So where are "those" images being stored? The images don't go away until you issue a remove cover art command. If you bring the images back into the DVD folders and issue a Quick Find in File command, now you can see them again. It appears that the cover art in the DVD folders in redundant and only the for recovery, because the images are stored in some database???
Am I seeing something crazy?
Any of the developers want to chime in and explain the behaviour?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you and take care,
Rob