Hi,
I use my photo directories in thumbnail mode. Some of the photos are of informative signs (national parks etc). I'd like to block those sign images from ever appearing in the thumbnail of the folder they reside in. Is there a way to do this?
This is under Preferences / File Display Modes / Thumbnails:
If the Windows shell is generating the thumbnails ("folder thumbnails via the shell"), I'm not sure what its rules are for picking files.
If Opus is generating them itself, you can tell it to either pick files in alphabetical order or by date order ("choose most recent images"). You can also specify a particular filename to look for for a single-image folder thumbnail, but that probably isn't what you want.
Using the alphabetical option and then making sure the unwanted images aren't in the first four names would mean they were excluded from folder thumbnails.
Thank you, Leo
I've been using Opus to generate the folder thumbnails. I guess my best bet is to backdate the "date created" and "date modified" for photos of informational signs/displays and use "choose most recent images".
The Single image option lets you use a wildcard so you could use a "not" pattern to exclude the files you don't want, e.g. ~(dog*|cat*) would exclude files beginning with "dog" or "cat"; although that will also limit it to just a single image in the thumbnail.
In the next update we'll add an option to this to allow it to continue to generate the thumbnail from multiple (up to 4) files even when a wildcard is specified.