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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: rjm on May 25, 2008, 10:01:32 pm
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I synchronize my library and thumbnail cache files to multiple computers on a regular basis. It works very well however a (hopefully small) change would significantly improve the experience.
My synchronization program compares date modified to determine if a file needs to be copied. It appears that MC always modifies the thumbnail cache files, even if I do not take any actions that add, remove, or modify thumbnails.
This is a bit of a pain because my thumbnail cache files are very large (2.2 GB) and take quite a long time to copy.
It would be wonderful if MC would only modify the thumbnail cache files when a thumbnail is actually added, deleted, or changed.
Thanks in advance for considering this.
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In case anyone has the same issue, I think I found a reasonable solution...
My backup application is Super Flexible File Synchronizer. They recently introduced a new feature called Partial File Updating. It works by installing a service on the backup server which calculates checksums for chunks of large files. The app then only copies the chunks that have changed.
My preliminary tests indicate a significant speedup when backing up the MC thumbnail cache.