Missing checkbox "Create thumbnails on save"

Thomas_N

• 31. August 2017 09:59

I have CO Pro for Sony Version 10.1.2. on a Windows 10 computer. In one of the webinars I noticed there is a checkbox "File icon Create thumbnails on save" (in the Output tool under Process recipe, File).

a) I couldn't find a description for that checkbox. What is it's purpose / use?
b) This checkbox does not show up on my screen for any of the pre-built recipes or any of the recipes I created. (There is only: Root folder, Sub Name, Sub Folder). What is the reason for that behaviour? Bug?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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  SFA

  • 31. August 2017 12:21

  I have a vague memory that the checkbox is only required for Mac. Windows creates a "thumbnail" un-asked.
  
  I could be wrong.
  
  The webinars are usually presented using a Mac.
  
  Maybe someone can chime in and confirm or correct me.
  
  
  Grant

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  Benjamin Liddle

  • 31. August 2017 13:38

  That option is a holdover from a time when the thumbnails were not generated automatically. It's mostly not necessary to pre-generate thumbnails on modern OSes, and as you can see it's not even an option on Windows.

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  Thomas_N

  • 31. August 2017 14:46

  Thanks, Ben and Grant! I'm still a little puzzled. I vaguely remember a thread in a different forum where this issue was discussed in conjunction with the question whether CO predicts the size of the output-file correctly. Meaning the filesize becomes bigger than the predicted value, if a thumbnail was generated (and embedded) in the output file. In my case it seems that the outputted files are much bigger than predicted. For example: 789KB instead of 544KB as predicted. So maybe CO generates a thumbnail after all and doesn't give me the opportunity to uncheck the option? Or else this isn't true and CO simply makes a lousy job in predicting the output size.

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  Benjamin Liddle

  • 31. August 2017 14:50

  Likely the latter, it can be relatively off when estimating file sizes < ~1.5MB on either platform, thumbnail or not.

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  Thomas_N

  • 3. September 2017 08:46

  [quote="ben_US" wrote:
  That option is a holdover from a time when the thumbnails were not generated automatically. It's mostly not necessary to pre-generate thumbnails on modern OSes, and as you can see it's not even an option on Windows.

  
  It's not that simple. I did a little more fiddling around using exiftool to extract a thumbnail from an outputted jpeg - and indeed CO created one. So this seems to be the default setting which I can't switch off since there is no checkbox. I opened a case and the support says there is misalignment between the Mac and the Windows platforms which they will be working on.

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