Scratch

when you import pictures into scratch, the import window has thumbnails of all the pictures in the folder. scratchthumbs.db is used to store those images.

soniku3 wrote:

Wes64 wrote:

when you import pictures into scratch, the import window has thumbnails of all the pictures in the folder. scratchthumbs.db is used to store those images.

Is there a way to disable it?

why would you want to do that

777w wrote:

soniku3 wrote:

Wes64 wrote:

when you import pictures into scratch, the import window has thumbnails of all the pictures in the folder. scratchthumbs.db is used to store those images.

Is there a way to disable it?

why would you want to do that

Its almost 1MB. Save some memory, even if it is only a bit. Its also annoying to see it on folders you will probably import from only once.

Alos, couldn't scratch just store it into one big db file in the scratch folder? Then it can delete unused thumbnails (like ones that you used a long time ago) when you open scratch.

Molybdenum wrote:

Whenever I use scratch to select a file (ex. a costume), it creates a large scratchthumbs file "scratchthumbs.db". Nothing happens when I delete it. What is this for?

I know. What's up with it?

Molybdenum wrote:

777w wrote:

soniku3 wrote:

Is there a way to disable it?

why would you want to do that

Its almost 1MB. Save some memory, even if it is only a bit. Its also annoying to see it on folders you will probably import from only once.

Alos, couldn't scratch just store it into one big db file in the scratch folder? Then it can delete unused thumbnails (like ones that you used a long time ago) when you open scratch.

It doesn't work that way, Scratch needs to store thumbnails of images in the folder the image file is located in. Same as with other programs that require thumbnails for their associated files. If you want to keep it all down to one thumbnail, just keep all the images in one folder instead of many. 

Molybdenum wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Molybdenum wrote:

Its almost 1MB. Save some memory, even if it is only a bit. Its also annoying to see it on folders you will probably import from only once.

Alos, couldn't scratch just store it into one big db file in the scratch folder? Then it can delete unused thumbnails (like ones that you used a long time ago) when you open scratch.

It doesn't work that way, Scratch needs to store thumbnails of images in the folder the image file is located in. Same as with other programs that require thumbnails for their associated files. If you want to keep it all down to one thumbnail, just keep all the images in one folder instead of many. 

Couldn't scratch have a file like this:
C:/Blah
Thumbnail
Thumbnail
D:/Example
Thumbnail
? I just don't like scratch to put things everywhere.

Thumbnails can only look at the files located in the folder they are placed in. Same can be said for other programs that use thumbnail files. I haven't heard of a thumbnail file being associated outside it's own designated folder. 

If you're absolutely serious about getting rid of the thumbs.db file for good, there are ways to stop generating them - you just have to search up the method of doing so for your OS system.

Wes64 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Molybdenum wrote:

Couldn't scratch have a file like this:
C:/Blah
Thumbnail
Thumbnail
D:/Example
Thumbnail
? I just don't like scratch to put things everywhere.

Thumbnails can only look at the files located in the folder they are placed in. Same can be said for other programs that use thumbnail files. I haven't heard of a thumbnail file being associated outside it's own designated folder. 

If you're absolutely serious about getting rid of the thumbs.db file for good, there are ways to stop generating them - you just have to search up the method of doing so for your OS system.

would it be possible for the scratchthumbs.db to delete itself once the program is done with it? i.e. make them temporary files

Thumbnail files are for programs that require thumbnail views of images - the point of them is to make a program run faster when generating those images, so designating the scratchthumbs.db file as a temp file being able to delete itself goes against the goal of having a thumbnail file in the first place (especially if you're using Scratch a lot).

Wes64 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Wes64 wrote:

would it be possible for the scratchthumbs.db to delete itself once the program is done with it? i.e. make them temporary files

Thumbnail files are for programs that require thumbnail views of images - the point of them is to make a program run faster when generating those images, so designating the scratchthumbs.db file as a temp file being able to delete itself goes against the goal of having a thumbnail file in the first place (especially if you're using Scratch a lot).

oh, I see. they do sometimes take a while to generate (I once accidentally tried to open a folder full of thousands of images).

do you suppose they could be marked as "hidden" then? its not aesthetically pleasing and you're never going to make edits to the .db file yourself

Yes, they could be marked as hidden. You just need to search up the method of doing so for your OS system. Personally, though, I just have it showing in case a thumbnail get corrupted for some reason (which sometimes happens when moving images and folders) - that way I can just delete it and whatever program using the thumbnail can generate a fresh clean one.