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YES - T7 is blazing fast compared to t10 .. I just posted my tale of disappointment and then I saw that you were onto the same thing.
It's good to know I wasn't imagining things. Thumbsplus 10 is very inefficient in terms of caching. I have 16 GB of RAM and TP only uses 700 MB with the max thumbnail cache size.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Any way to save your colors?
« on: 2019-02-28 00:05:52 »
I've set up the interface colors the way I want them. Is there any way to save them to a "theme" or something?

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Thanks. I didn't think of that and it worked.

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This is a minor annoyance. Although TP starts full screen, it is technically not maximized which activates my pseudo OCD and I must click the maximize button in the corner of the window. This happens even though I have told TP to remember window sizes and positions in the preferences. Any way to solve this?

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Yes, I set that and it still doesn't work. Not a big deal though. I'm not using Thumbsplus for video.

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I found an old piece of software from SysInternals called Cacheset which controls Windows' disk cache. Unfortunately it didn't help. The cache never seems to go above 700 MB no matter what its set to.

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been read, it will be temporarily stored in Windows' internal disk cache and then it will load faster during that session, until you, or a background program, reads some differrent folders that will then be cached at the expense of your first folder.
What setting in Windows controls this? Virtual Memory?

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Does it use its own internal codecs or DirectShow?

Sorry, didn't see the topic a few lines down. This really isn't a big issue, but I have a very old video file that's encoded using the hacked DivX 3.11 codec. I've set up FFDShow to play the file correctly in other media players, but Thumbsplus won't play it nor make a thumbnail.

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The frequency with which it does this suggests that it doesn't cache very much in RAM. Also, the time it takes is inconsistent and I don't understand why. I have a folder which I work with regularly which has about 20,000 files. Most of the time building the file list only takes 5-10 seconds. Sometimes, however it has taken several minutes to display.

I've turned off Color Management for thumbnails. However, I still meet two of the criteria you listed for slowdowns. I have a large amount of files, and some of them are stored on an external drive. The database itself is stored on an internal HDD. As I said though, whether the database was placed on an SSD or HDD didn't seem to matter.

Is a SQLite3 database slower than MS Access? I've used Thumbplus 7 in the past and I seem to remember it being faster, though I could be mistaken.

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And why does Thumbsplus have to do it every time I switch folders? If all of the data and the thumbnails are in the database already, why is it doing this so often, and why does it take so long? I already allocated the maximum amount for the thumbnail cache (1000 apparently). I've tried storing the database on an SSD, but this didn't improve the speed or frequency of building the list. If this is unavoidable, perhaps future versions should have the option of storing more in RAM to avoid this.

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The thumbnail cache setting says the range of possible values is 10-10000 but whenever I try to set 10000 or 9999 it resets to 1000. Is the maximum really 1000 and 10000 is just a typo?

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