Is there a way to manage thumbnail cache?
I have an external hard drive containing all my media, including tons of Youtube videos and pictures. Is there a way to manage thumbnail cache so that the thumbnails can be restored very fast, if not instantaneously? It seems like every time I open to a folder containing many thumbnails (hundreds), Windows takes quite a while (tens of seconds to may be a minute). I'm not sure if this slow process is the result of the hard drive reading things slowly, thumbnail cache being restored, or thumbnail cache being created. Also, I must scroll up and down in Windows Explorer to ensure Windows loads all these thumbnails--otherwise, it would load only as I scroll them, so I would have to wait a while every time I scroll down. I thought the point of thumbnail cache is to deal with this problem in the first place--is my hard drive really that slow to process things this slowly?
This problem is occurs even on my internal drives.
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Awesome, solved the problem with Windows 8's version of the article you linked. http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/prevent-windows-8-file-explorer-from-deleting-images-thumbnail-cache/
Thanks!
I found this: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/stopprevent-windows-7-from-deleting-thumbnail-cache/
Seems that in Window7, the cache for a folder is being overwriting, each time you visit the page.
The instructions are for disabling STSTEM permissions from modifying a particular folder + its tree of sub-folders.
*Side Note,
I just applied the instructions, and it seems to really help with a similar problem.
I have a folder of old Maplestory screenshots [1200+] that I dump into when the main one starts to slow down.
[b]Now they load instantly![/b]
If that doesn't help, you can try disabling window's indexing protocols, this will slow down searching files but it helps a little especially if you have over a TB of data and they are spread out on multiple drives.