[mythtv] [PATCH] mythgallery: move .thumbcache out of image directory

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Tue May 3 08:56:47 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 03 May 2005 04:46 am, Adam Egger wrote:
> 2005/5/3, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu>:
> > On Friday 15 April 2005 06:20 pm, Eggert Thorlacius wrote:
> > > This small patch adds a checkbox to the MythGallery Settings page where
> > > the user can choose between the current functionality of storing
> > > .thumbcache directories inside the image directory or storing them in
> > > ~/.mythtv/mythgallery/
> > >
> > > This makes it possible to use MythGallery to browse a read-only
> > > directory
> >
> > This would be neat if it just automatically fell back to the ~/.mythtv/
> > dir if writing to the image directory failed, instead of having a
> > separate config option for it..
>
> I actually have write access to my image directory. Unfortunatelly
> every application tries to put thumbnails into it and I was able to
> turn off this "feature" for almost all programs. It's hard to makes
> backups of the 10GB big image directory, when it permanently changes.
>
> It would be really great to have a possibility to change the
> thumbcache directory to ~/.mythtv/mythgallery/ even if there's write
> access to it.

Or just check for other programs' thumbnails.

Isaac


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