Hey Guys. I have a lot of folders with videos and photos in these cataloged by folders by year and inside them by month. How do i get opus ( or windows 11 ) to index everything so when i am to navigate any of these folders the thumbnails are already there rather then having to wait a lifetime for them to load?
please advise
marc
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Switch to flat view (and enable a mode with thumbnails)
flat view?
Thumbnails should be cached (by Opus or Windows, depending on which generates them) the first time they are displayed.
Are you saying they are slow to appear even when revisiting a folder that has already had all its thumbnails generated?
Or is the aim to generate the thumbs in advance so there’s no delay on any folders the first time you visit them?
(Opus also has an option for generating thumbnails in the current folder before they’re scrolled into view, which may be relevant. As well as the global setting, it can be overridden per-folder using an add-in I wrote, if that’s needed.)
since they are a library catalogued by year, and then month they wont change so the goal is to have them indexed so that anytime i refer to any folder the thumbnails are already there rather than having to wait for them to load
They should only be slow to load the first time they are displayed, and the way to get them cached would take longer than waiting for the individual folders each time.
If you want to,
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Turn on Preferences / File Display Modes / Thumbnails / Load all thumbnails in a folder automatically
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Go to the folder and turn on Flat View and switch to Thumbnails mode.
But note that if memory limits start to be reached, it may not thumbnail all the files unless you scroll through them. Personally, I would just let it happen automatically the first time the files are displayed.
If there are a lot of files, you may also want to increase the size of the thumbnail cache.