thumbnail-spec: proposing nested thumbnail cache directories

[Thomas Leonard]

On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:13:58 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:

> On 9/7/07, Thomas Leonard <talex5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A better scheme would be to
>> md5sum the name of the directory containing the image, e.g.
>> thumbnailing a directory containing 'dog.jpg' and 'cat.jpg' would
>> create/access:
>>
>>   <cache>/763ab.../dog.jpg
>>   <cache>/763ab.../cat.jpg
>>
>> Thus you get all the images you need together in the cache. Also helps
>> with deleting/renaming directories.
> 
> And it also causes thumbnails to be regenerated each time you move the
> file around (and useless thumbnails persist where files were
> previously). I'm all for using the original proposition in this thread.

I'm not sure which one "it" refers to, but in the current system and in 
both proposals in this thread, renaming or moving a file requires 
renaming or regenerating its thumbnail.


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