I have a simple setup: Linux server at home with a huge drive; that drive has a photo library (hundreds of folders, hundreds of gigabytes). The drive is shared with multiple Windows and Mac clients using Samba.
Question: is there a utility I can run to pre-generate all thumbnails inside a folder, so that my clients would be able to navigate the library faster?
Thank you.
Windows and Mac use different cache formats to store thumbnails.
Thumbs.db is deprecated for the Windows platform, since Vista, they've been stored in a proprietary database located in C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer on each individual computer.
For Mac OSX and later, the thumbnail cache is stored in ~Library/caches/ on each individual computer.
So, as the "disappeared" answer earlier started, there is no way to pre-generate thumbnails for Windows Explorer or Mac Finder. What one could do, is pre-generate folders with thumbnail'd images. I do this for my personal photo library, I have a cron script to run imagemagick over new images to generate a 100x100 thumbnail.
