Speeding Up Thumbnail Display; Thumbnail Caching - Ulead PHOTO EXPLORER 8.5 User Manual

Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide

Speeding up thumbnail display

If you have a large number of multimedia files in a folder, it may take Photo Explorer
some time to generate thumbnails for the files and display them on-screen. Instead of
regenerating thumbnails each time the same files are accessed, Photo Explorer stores them
in a cache folder. The next time you access your files, Photo Explorer simply loads the
thumbnails.
The process of saving thumbnails is known as thumbnail caching.

Thumbnail caching

By default, the thumbnail caching feature is enabled in the Cache category in the
Preferences dialog box. This allows Photo Explorer to create a separate cache file to store
thumbnails for each visited folder.
To specify where to store cache files, select one of these options :
• Save thumbnails in a central cache
folder
Saves all cache files in a common
folder. When selected, specify the
Cache folder to use. You can limit this
folder to a fixed Cache size, or select
the No cache size limit option for
unlimited caching.
Grouping all cache files in a single
folder enables easy deletion of cache
files. Simply click the Clear Cache
button to delete all cache files and
recover disk space.
• Save thumbnails in same folder as
images
Creates a cache file in the visited folder
to store thumbnails for media files
(images, videos, and animated GIFs) in
that folder.
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