Where are photo station's thumbnails stored?

[gleep52]

At some point, I have a folder created under every folder with photos titled: .@__thumb

Is this folder created by the photo station? Or is this folder created by some other application I have installed? I use btsync to sync all my photos (photographer 1tb+ pictures) between 4 different locations including two offsite PCs. The .@__thumb folder is killing me for a multitude of reasons, especially when using lightroom or picasa...

Can anyone shed some light on this .@__thumb folder?

Thanks in advance!

[pwilson]

At some point, I have a folder created under every folder with photos titled: .@__thumb

Is this folder created by the photo station? Or is this folder created by some other application I have installed? I use btsync to sync all my photos (photographer 1tb+ pictures) between 4 different locations including two offsite PCs. The .@__thumb folder is killing me for a multitude of reasons, especially when using lightroom or picasa...

Can anyone shed some light on this .@__thumb folder?

Thanks in advance!

Thumbnails are stored in the .@__thumb folders littered all over your storage volumes.

[schumaku]

Best solution might be to lt the NAS use these shared folders / subfolders for the Multimedia Library for Photo Station, File Station*, Video Station _or_ take the folders out of the Multimedia Library processing for Lightroom, Picasa, ... simply to much different apps trying to deal with the photos and attempting to make things easy.

For File Station, you have to disable the thumbnail creation globally - otherwise File Station will also trigger the creation.

[gleep52]

Is there a way I can remove all these .@__thumb folders easily? I have hundreds, maybe thousands of subdirectories. I've turned off the photo app on the qnap. How can I "undo" it's folder and thumbnail creations?

[pwilson]

Is there a way I can remove all these .@__thumb folders easily? I have hundreds, maybe thousands of subdirectories. I've turned off the photo app on the qnap. How can I "undo" it's folder and thumbnail creations?

I suppose you could spend numerous hours deleting files via File Station. Unfortunately QNAP does not provide "xargs" at all, and only provides the substandard Busybox version of "find", so doing this from the command line is difficult via SSH unless you install "findutils" via either QNAPware or depreciated Optware.

QNAPware:

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admin@NASTY2:~/bin# opkg list | grep findutils
findutils - 4.5.14-1 - GNU Find Utilities are the basic directory searching utilities of the GNU OS.
findutils-locate - 4.5.14-1 - locate, updatedb is a part of GNU Find Utilities.

Optware:

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admin@NASTY2:~/bin# ipkg list | grep findutils
findutils - 4.2.32-1 - File finding utilities
findutils-doc - 4.2.32-1 - Documentation for file finding utilities

Please note how out-of-date the Optware version is.

[gleep52]

I just used a windows machine, mounted the folder I wanted, and ran a quick powershell command.

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remove-item Z:\* -include .@__thumb -recurse -force

Also ran it for some file named ZbThumbnail.info which seemed to be everywhere as well. Anything else I should look for to clean up?

[pwilson]

I just used a windows machine, mounted the folder I wanted, and ran a quick powershell command.

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remove-item Z:\* -include .@__thumb -recurse -force

Also ran it for some file named ZbThumbnail.info which seemed to be everywhere as well. Anything else I should look for to clean up?

That should suffice. I however am not a Windows or Powershell user.

[hbokh]

You don't need "xargs" to remove these thumbnails-folders recursively.
Just SSH into the NAS and run this (change the folder mentioned in the first line), using find from "findutils"-package:

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cd /share/Multimedia/Music
find . -type d -name ".@__thumb" -exec rm -rf {} \;

[3rdparty]

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cd /share/Multimedia/Music
find . -type d -name ".@__thumb" -exec rm -rf {} \;

I tried that but it doesn't want to accept the expression. Incidentally I'm using it to remove the "@eaDir" folder that my Synology NAS had created (I've copied that data over to my new QNAP TS-453mini).

This is what I'm trying via SSH on QNAP once in my photos directory:

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find . -type d -name “@eaDir“ -exec rm -rf {} \;

[Trexx]

Did you install the QNAPware FindUtils package prior to trying to run the command above?

[3rdparty]

Did you install the QNAPware FindUtils package prior to trying to run the command above?

I just installed QNAPware qpkg. Do I have to do anything else to install FindUtils separately? Running the command again causes the SSH session to pause (like its processing) and then return to prompt, but folders are still there.

[Trexx]

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opkg install findutils

[athinaok]

Copy paste this code to a file named rmthumbnails.py .
Plase file where you want to start scan and remove files and folders.

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import os, shutil

for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.', topdown=False):
        print "Root: %s" % root
        for dir in dirs:
                if dir == '.@__thumb':
                        delpath = os.path.join(root, dir)
                        print "Removing %s" % delpath
                        shutil.rmtree(delpath)
        for file in files:
                if file == '.hightlight':
                        delpath = os.path.join(root, file)
                        print "Removing %s" % delpath
                        os.remove(delpath)
                elif file == 'Picasa.ini':
                        delpath = os.path.join(root, file)
                        print "Removing %s" % delpath
                        os.remove(delpath)
                elif file == 'Thumbs.db':
                        delpath = os.path.join(root, file)
                        print "Removing %s" % delpath
                        
                        

Run code from ssh with command python rmthumbnails.py

Code taken from qnap forum
viewtopic.php?f=50&t=3100

[OneCD]

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