Configuration - Thumbnails Back
Change settings for thumbnails view.
Database location Location of the thumbnail database. You should not share this with other users in multi-user environments, because only one user can access the database at the same time. Default location:
Windows 9x/ME: Totalcmd dir
Windows NT/2000/XP: %$LOCAL_APPDATA%\GHISLER
Copy/delete thumbnails with files
When copying or deleting files, Totalcmd will update the thumbnails database if the copied/deleted file has an associated thumbnail. Since this is done in a background thread, it shouldn't affect performance too much.
Show custom fields below thumbnails
Here you can define additional lines of text below the file name, for example the file size. If you have a digital photo camera, you should install the EXIF content plugin to view details like exposure time.
See the dialog box to change custom columns under field contents for the syntax of the custom fields!
Thumbnail size Size of the thumbnail, in pixels. A multiple of 16 pixels is recommended for speed reasons. Two different image formats are recommended:
1. In most cases, a square image size of 96x96 or 128x128 is the best choice
2. If most of your images are digital photos, an aspect ratio of 4:3 is recommended, e.g. 96x72 or 128x96
Fields by type Here you can define what file info is shown for different file types. For example, you can show EXIF data for JPEG files using the EXIF plugin, e.g. the image size or exposure time, and for films the used codec. To do this, you first have to specify the file mask to use, e.g. *.jpg *.jpeg, and then choose the fields to be shown. Multiple lines are possible!
Loading thumbnails Configure how thumbnails are loaded. The methods are used in the same order as they are listed in this section. For each method, you can specify file types as in the search function, with include or exclude. Everything after the vertical line | will be treated as exclude rules. Example:
*.bmp *.gif *.jpg Bitmap, Jpeg and Gif images
*.* | *.htm *.html Everything except for html files.
Get from Lister plugins for
This method relies on special lister plugins supporting a new Thumbnail extraction function. You may need to update existing lister plugins to use this function.
Use Explorer method (OLE2) for:
This method uses the same functions as the Explorer. Unfortunately this function doesn't seem to work with multiple large images on Windows 9x, so you may want to disable it on these systems.
Get from Irfan-/Xnview for
This method can use an installed (and configured as a filter in Lister) Irfanview or Xnview to load the images. The image is loaded as a whole, passed to Total Commander via the clipboard, and then reduced to the thumbnail size. Note: This method will clear the clipboard when loading images!
Plain text file thumbnails for
This will show the first few lines of text from the specified files.
Compact thumbnail database
Allows to optimize the thumbnail database, and remove no longer used thumbnails. It's recommended to use this function from time to time to save disk space, and make thumbnail view faster.
Remove thumbnails for no longer existing files
This will remove thumbnails for files which do not exist any more. This will NOT delete thumbnails where Total Commander cannot access the drive, e.g. inaccessible network drives, or CDs. There are separate options for these two.
Remove thumbnails for currently uninserted CDs
This will remove thumbnails for images on CDROM.
Remove thumbnails for inaccessible disks
This will remove thumbnails for files on network drives or USB sticks.
Start Starts the compacting and optimization of the database.