[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] How can I modify thumbs.db file

  • Resolved j0sh44

    (@j0sh44)


    16 years, 9 months ago

    Is there a way that I can modify my thumbs.db file for my galleries. I want to upload full size pics to my gallery but my hosting service does not give me enough memory for NextGen to create thumbnails for the large photos (it just chokes when trying to create thumbnails). I was thinking I could create my own thumbnails and modify the thumbs.db file so I can use the full resolution pictures. Is that possible? Is there a better way to get full resolution photos in my gallery? My hosting stats follow as displayed under Manage Gallery (its a 1and1 server):

    Operating System : Linux
    Server : Apache/1.3.34 Ben-SSL/1.55
    Memory usage : 9.93 MByte
    MYSQL Version : 5.0.51a-log
    SQL Mode : Not set
    PHP Version : 4.4.8
    PHP Safe Mode : Off
    PHP Allow URL fopen : On
    PHP Memory Limit : 40M
    PHP Max Upload Size : 20M
    PHP Max Post Size : 8M
    PHP Max Script Execute Time : 50000s
    PHP Exif support : Yes ( V1.4 )
    PHP IPTC support : Yes
    PHP XML support : Yes
    GD support
    GD Version : bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
    FreeType Support : Yes
    FreeType Linkage : with freetype
    T1Lib Support : No
    GIF Read Support : Yes
    GIF Create Support : Yes
    JPG Support : Yes
    PNG Support : Yes
    WBMP Support : Yes
    XBM Support : Yes
    JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support : No

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  • I thought Thumbs.db is created by Windows?

    Thumbs.db is not created or used by NGG.

    If you use would like to use your own thumbnails :

    create the folder galleryname/thumbs and call the thumbnails thumbs_filename.jpg

    Thread Starter j0sh44

    (@j0sh44)

    Yep, you guys are right, that must have gotten placed in there by accident. I was thinking it was an index of some sorts that correlated the pictures to the thumbs but i am guessing that is done by names. One thing I figured out is that it is not enough to place the full resolution pictures in the main folder and the thumbnail in the /thumbs folder but you still have to scan the folder for new files. It will tell me it could not create the thumbnails for the files which is OK since I already did that, but until I did that process the new pics would not show up in the gallery, just in case anyone is wondering.

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