.shotwell/thumbs too big (440MB my case)
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Link to original bug (#716183)
Description
---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2010-05-15 16:33:00 -0700 ----
Original Redmine bug id: 1927
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1927
Searchable id: yorba-bug-1927
Original author: Dan Mihai Ile
Original description:
Hello.
It seems that the application uses too much resources for thumbnails, as on my system eats 440mb of data.
This is way too much for a application that just manages photos.
Currently I have 13.000 photos on my system and almost all of them already have a small thumbnail right inside the metadata.
So thumbs128 uses 92mb while thumbs360 uses 347mb.
You may say that hdd are very big those days, yes but people start using ssd's whrer prices are still 2/Gb (cheap ones) so this bug somehow matters…
So my suggestions would be:
1: use thumbnails inside images if available and avoid creating another.
2: use gnome's .thumbnails if available (man if every application generates a thumbnails folder for my photos….) and avoid creating another
3: make thumbs360 smaller (do you use them for the events squares? if so: why thumbnail sizes way are larger than the squares? and second why do you create large thumbnail for every photo while you only show 1 for the event?)
I see that next Ubuntu could possibly use this application by default so I think this should be fixed/thicken a little as soon as possible.
---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-05-01 11:47:00 -0700 ----
History
Comment 1
Updated by Adam Dingle over 3 years ago
- Status changed from Open to 5
- Resolution set to duplicate
- % Done set to 100
Any thumbnailing system will use space proportional to the library size. I'd wager that your 13,000 photos use at least 20 Gb of disk space, so Shotwell's 440 Mb thumbnails directory is less than 5% of the size of your library. That doesn't seem so tragic to me, though of course using less space would always be nice. Regarding your suggestions:
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It's true that many JPEG images come with embedded thumbnails, but they are usually too small for Shotwell's needs. Both my iPhone camera and my Canon PowerShot S90 embed a 160×120 thumbnail in each photo, but this is just too small for Shotwell (see (3) below).
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We've considered sharing thumbnails with GNOME and concluded that we can't easily do so; see #1086 (closed) for a list of reasons why.
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Shotwell displays a thumbnail for every photo in the Photos view, where the zoom slider allows photos to grow to up to 360 pixels in size, and so we need 360-pixel thumbnails.
It's possible that we'll add an option to use GNOME thumbnails someday, but I think this is unlikely to happen soon. In the meantime, I'm marking this as a duplicate of #1086 (closed) .
Comment 2
Updated by Charles Lindsay 7 months ago
- Status changed from 5 to Duplicate
--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 21:44 UTC ---
This bug was previously known as bug 1927 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1927
Unknown Component Using default product and component set in Parameters Unknown version " in product shotwell. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product shotwell. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Resolution: RESOLVED DUPLICATE