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[magnust]

Hi!

Been a MC user since MC16 and this is the tenth time I upgrade     Now running MC 31.0.80

I have one MC running as the main instance where all the music is stored (roughly 10000 albums) and then I run a second MC which connects to the main MC's library that acts as a library server. All has been well. But after upgrading I have a problem with thumbnails on the client MC. Getting all the thumbnails built on the server is still not a problem but on the client MC just a few seemingly random thumbnails show up.

Things I've tried that does not help:

- click "rebuild thumbnails" on client
- click "sync changes with library server"
- I've tested running the client on both Win10 and on a Raspberry Pi running Bullseye. They behave the same, a few random thumbnails show up
- waited two days with everything connected and running
- disconnect and instead load the local (empty) library on the client and then reconnect to the library server. Here it seems a few more random thumbnails are added sometimes
- run new import on the server, thought it might trigger something but no


But what does sort of help is very odd: If I use the thumbnail size slider in the upper right corner and set it to really huuuuge thumbnails they all show up!!! But if I drag the slider down again setting it to more normal thumbnail sizes I'm back to a few random thumbnails.

Second thing I just found, a "mouse over" on a folder, and keeping the mouse there for a bunch of seconds, seems to trigger creating that particular thumbnail "pile". Does not work on albums.


Any ideas? Some setting I need to change? Bug?



PS:
I searched but couldn't find anything relevant, thumbnails are mentioned a lot so it was a bit hard to search for something useful

[JimH]

I don't think it's a bug.  Scroll down in any view and wait.  The thumbnails should fill in.

[magnust]

Hmmm, maybe this confused MC? Or is it supposed to have these two Thumbnail directories? See screenshot from the client on the Raspberry Pi

[JimH]

Scroll down in any view and wait.  The thumbnails should fill in.

Did you try this?

[magnust]

Yes, nothing happened for another day.

But when I went to the server MC and went through and viewed ALL albums and waited for each album cover to show up (I set the view to smallest possible thumbnail so a lot of albums were visible at the same time and then scrolled through until all 10000 albums showed a cover) after this thumbnails started to appear on the client MC.

[bob]

You shouldn't have backslashed Thumbnail directories on the client.
I assume you are just connecting with library server?
You didn't copy anything manually?

[magnust]

I didn't add the backslash or the directory path  But my guess it might be from that I did a restore on the Linux client MC from a backup from the windows MC to get all my settings like a wanted them. Is this a general no no?

[bob]

I didn't add the backslash or the directory path  But my guess it might be from that I did a restore on the Linux client MC from a backup from the windows MC to get all my settings like a wanted them. Is this a general no no?

That's probably where it came from.
Things get even more complicated if you have used a portable library then connected to a library server.