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Building thumbnails takes a long time
rjm:
Like I said, have not done a thumbnail rebuild for years but I remember it takes a very long time.
I have about 190,000 files. All are on local drives. All are excluded from my virus checker.
tcman41:
190,000 files?, crap i have about 20,000 and thought it was a bit much, lol.
190,000 / 14 (songs per album) = 17,000 albums, hmmm.
TC ;D
glynor:
--- Quote from: tcman41 on September 10, 2008, 01:36:40 pm ---190,000 / 14 (songs per album) = 17,000 albums, hmmm.
--- End quote ---
Who says they're all music?
Alex B:
rjm,
I am not recommending the following procedure, but I think you may be able to keep your old thumbnails.
Here's what I did: First I restored an MC12 library backup file in MC13 and checked that it opened correctly. I disabled the Auto-import feature and file tagging and closed MC13.
Then I deleted the MC13 libary files & the corresponding thumbnail files and copied the similar MC12 files (from the same library that I restored) to the MC13 locations. Naturally both MC versions were closed during this.
After opening MC13 everything seemed to be fine and all thumbnails were instantly available. I have runned this test library a few hours and I have not encountered any problems with the features that I have used so far, but I am not promising that there would not be any problems. I haven't tested many of the advanced features like file stacks.
Personally, I wouldn't first try this with a library of 190,000 files. I am now testing it with a moderately sized local library. It has about 5,000 files, mostly audio, but also some videos, images and docs.
rjm:
Thank you Alex. I was planning to try exactly what you suggested. It has worked for me in the past when upgrading. And I suspect it will work again this time unless the database structure changed dramatically, which I don't think is the case given the release notes.
I'll report back here my experience when done.
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