How to decrease thumbnail size (and catalog file size)

Hal

• February 11, 2011 20:11

Hello:
I am a user of iView 3 (by now I did not see a point in upgrading to EM) on an iMac running Snow Leopard. My main catalog reached the 2GByte limit, but I do not want to split it up. I use quite large, variable thumbnails and I figured, if I change to smaller thumbnails, the catalog file should shrink.

In order to do that, I thought I simply reduce the view size of the thumbnails via the minus button in the upper right corner of the iView screen and then press cmd+b to rebuild the selected elements, just as it works if I want to increase the thumbnail size.

Alas, decreasing does not work. iView does something, but the thumbnail and therefore the catalog size remains the same.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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  rmoorlag

  • February 14, 2011 22:05

  Hello Hal,
  
  Not much feedback on the forum, i can not help you either.
  You best log a support call for this i think (go to http://support.phaseone.com and click on "Contact support")
  Roelof

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  Benny Norlin

  • February 15, 2011 12:37

  To reduce the thumbnail size stored in the catalog file you need to change the thumbnail size in the presets, not in the display view. Then view all images, select all, cmd-B.
  
  That would do the trick.

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  Hal

  • February 20, 2011 16:17

  Indeed, Benny12, this does the trick. Thank you very much. 😄
  
  For some odd reason, the "preset" as you called it, is in the "Edit" menu. I switched it to "variable" and then zoomed out so that I have reasonably small thumbnails in the display. I am "rebuilding" all of them and the catalog file now shrinks significantly from 1.8 GByte to 1.1 GByte.
  
  Thanks again, Benny12.

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  Benny Norlin

  • February 21, 2011 16:07

  Thank you. You can find some interesting reading about the EM catalog size vs. thumbnail and preview sizes here.
  

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