I was wondering does anybody know if there's a way to save the thumbnails from being deleted in Windows 7. Here's the issue I've been having for a while:
I work in digital print, and we have a very large collection of high quality photos and scans, most of them reaching up to a couple of hundred of MBs. Because of the size and the sheer amount of them, it takes a very long time to generate thumbnails for all of them. And I mean, a really long time, like hours. But the issue is that occasionally (sometimes after a few weeks, sometimes after just a couple of days) Windows erases the thumbnail cache and has to rebuild it again. Needless to say, this is not only annoying which I could handle, but it also slows down work which I can't really afford.
I've tried denying system access to the thumbnails cache folder, as recommended on the Internet, but this morning when I turned on the computer, the thumbnails were gone again. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? If not and it's some sort of built-in system in Windows 7 which automatically refreshes the thumbnails, does anyone knows an application I could use that would maybe generate its own thumbnail database that wouldn't go away?
The only other solutions I can come up with are either taking a snapshot of the folder contents once the thumbnails are generated (which isn't really ideal because files are constantly added/erased/edited) or make a sort of a preview folder where I would copy all of the files in much smaller resolution (also not ideal, because we're talking about a couple of TBs worth of data).
So if anyone has any recommendations I'd be very thankful.
I work in digital print, and we have a very large collection of high quality photos and scans, most of them reaching up to a couple of hundred of MBs. Because of the size and the sheer amount of them, it takes a very long time to generate thumbnails for all of them. And I mean, a really long time, like hours. But the issue is that occasionally (sometimes after a few weeks, sometimes after just a couple of days) Windows erases the thumbnail cache and has to rebuild it again. Needless to say, this is not only annoying which I could handle, but it also slows down work which I can't really afford.
I've tried denying system access to the thumbnails cache folder, as recommended on the Internet, but this morning when I turned on the computer, the thumbnails were gone again. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? If not and it's some sort of built-in system in Windows 7 which automatically refreshes the thumbnails, does anyone knows an application I could use that would maybe generate its own thumbnail database that wouldn't go away?
The only other solutions I can come up with are either taking a snapshot of the folder contents once the thumbnails are generated (which isn't really ideal because files are constantly added/erased/edited) or make a sort of a preview folder where I would copy all of the files in much smaller resolution (also not ideal, because we're talking about a couple of TBs worth of data).
So if anyone has any recommendations I'd be very thankful.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram