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Looking for a Windows 7 program or service to see my images on my FTP (small preview). With the possibility of removing not needed images.

Sathyajith Bhat
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I haven't tested Cyberduck since version 4 was released for Windows a few days ago, but I'm pretty sure it has such a preview feature. Either way, it's my go-to FTP client - a really excellent program.

Update: the documentation says that it has a file preview feature (I know it does this on OS X using Quick Look) but I can't seem to find it in the Windows version.

Matt Ball
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There is no way to do this with FTP. For any program to see the image (not just windows) it must download the entire image then render it. When you see thumbnails on a website or in windows there is a second scaled down copy hiding somewhere (you can just see the path on a normal web page if you view the source, for windows it is inside that thumbs.db (the finename stands for Thumbnail Database :) ))

Now there are a lot of programs that can spider your FTP and download all the images locally for you and you would be able to see thumbnail previews once it is downloaded, but nothing can do it without downloading the entire file first.

Scott Chamberlain
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Instead of using an FTP client, you could mount the server as a drive. That should let you see thumbnails and navigate the server as you would a local disk. The full files will have to be downloaded for thumbnails to be generated, but they will be cached on the server so only downloaded once.

Or use a web-based file manager on the server like PHPfileNavigator instead, which supports thumbnails and other cool features. Thumbnails are created on the server.

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