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v2010.103     08/03/10     

Priority: Med     

v2010.103 includes the following:

• Raw thumbnail building: New dual stage thumbnail builder builds raw thumbnails much faster.  Start working with your raws and create print jobs right away while Qimage Ultimate builds its raw cache invisibly in the background!
• Build thumbs/cache for entire folder trees: Simply browse to a folder and click "Thumb Builder" from the top menu and select "Build all thumbs/cache" and Qimage Ultimate will build thumbs/cache for all images in the current folder and all subfolders.  This is a great way to start a thumb/cache build to ensure you don't have to wait when navigating to new folders.  Progress of the build is shown above the thumbnails and you can even navigate away from the thumb/cache building to another folder or even close Qimage Ultimate if you don't want to wait for the build to finish.  To resume building the tree of thumbs/cache, just open the saved album "Thumb Build" with the date/time you started the build.  Qimage Ultimate will pick up right where it left off, and will continue down the tree until it is finished!
• Thumb/cache management: Added new options under "Utilities", "Manage Thumbs and Raw Cache" to help users manage the files that are thumbed or cached by Qimage Ultimate.
• Fixes: Fixed some minor bugs and occasional error messages.

   

Mike

I don't quite understand the improvements besides building the Raw cache faster. It still uses 100% of the 4 cores on my 3.7GHz PC and basically stops me from using the computer for much else until it is done. It would be helpful if in preferences you put a user changeable entry for percent of CPU usage dedicated to Qimage so you could use the computer for other things while it is building the thumbs and raw cache.

Andy

You can use Qimage, as cache building seems to stop when you do, and that's on an old P4 machine. Otherwise, stop caching, you choose the priority.
Terry

Two things on that.  First, that's already there: go to "Edit", "Preferences", "Hyper Processing", "Hyper Thumbing" and change it to dual.  Then it will only use 2 of your 4 CPU's, although I'm not sure why anyone would want to do that since if you have 4 CPU's, why not use all of them?  Second, the background processes are already set to lower priority so when they are running on my quad core system using all 4 CPU's, I can still do other things without any problem.  It does take a second or two longer to open another app but once that app is open and in the foreground, it runs nicely because it will gain priority on one CPU since the Qimage processes are lower priority.


That's intentional.  I didn't want to automatically migrate the raw cache because if it is a new system, it is very possible that the same (raw image) files don't exist on that system or may exist in different folders.  That would cause the much larger raw cache to be copied to a new system and potentially cause all of the cached files to be "orphans".  I didn't worry about that too much with thumbs because they are very small but I didn't want to migrate the raw cache automatically since that cache is much larger.  I figured if people really know that their raws will be under an identical directory structure on the new system, that folder could be done manually.  Perhaps in a future version, I can offer the choice though along with an explanation.

Mike

Does that mean I can create a RawCache folder on my D drive and Qimage will use it if it is there?
Andy

Thanks. That works. Also the CPU hogging is fixed now that I set the priority for Qimage to be normal again.

Andy