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I have been trying to find a reliable, private, photo sharing application so I can move away from Dropbox or OneDrive. I have too many family photos to send them there but the interface is pretty decent and fast. I was giddie when I found that MB supports photos, too! I am new so I didn't catch this at first. So my problem right now is I have a lot of photos and browsing is very slow. Thumbnails are taking forever to show up and then downloading a photo to view takes ages. Is there already an option to pre-cache the thumbnails or is that done each time someone loads an album? Or, is it done only one time when the first time the photo thumbnail is requested? Is there an option to set the default image size once the thumbnail is clicked? For instance, I set the default image size, in MP or file size (2MP, 300KB) and have that cached, too. I have a lot of 35MP photos. Normally I use IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/ - as if you didn't know about it already) to batch resize when I send them in email or upload to cloud services but I am trying to get away from that so the originals can be downloaded and printed without artifacts. Is the thumbnail caching and default image size caching considered the same feature or should it be different posts? Thank you for your help

I run my media on a readynas nv+, and due to the server software not currently being compatible for this server, I am running the server on my laptop. I currently have my cache in the default location, but was wondering if I would see any performance improvement by moving the cache to the readynas

I have image inconsistancies between my iOS devices and the web client in that in the web client I can see images but for some titles in iOS those those titles have no image. Please see the below post for details. http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/13113-imagescoverart-for-new-media-not-loading-on-homepage/?p=155213

Sometime when Media Browser Server gets updated; a task called "Clearing Cache" is executed. Is there a way to execute that task manually? Regards, DaN

Sometime when the Server gets updated; I see Clearing Cache task gets executes. Is there a way to execute that task manually? regards, DaN

Version 3.0.5306.42925 I had a couple of films that refused to fetch tmdb data. even went to the trouble of deleting them using the dashboard ui, and re-adding. They would identify (using manual option not automatic) , but would not fetch tmdb overview etc... i notices all-en.json was blank, unlike in the other ids (in \cache\tmdb-movies\id). by deleting the id folder (and the contained blank .json), a refresh on the objects would then work. dont know if its related.... but the two films that failed to id also showed ffprobe errors ( and continue to show this error) 2014-07-13 15:46:53.6397 Debug - App: Running FFProbeProvider for \\Q6600\NewMovies\Little Children (2006)\Little Children (2006).mkv 2014-07-13 15:46:53.6397 Error - App: Error in ffprobe Object reference not set to an instance of an object. System.NullReferenceException at MediaBrowser.Providers.MediaInfo.FFProbeHelpers.NormalizeFFProbeResult(InternalMediaInfoResult result) at MediaBrowser.Providers.MediaInfo.FFProbeVideoInfo.<ProbeVideo>d__0`1.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at MediaBrowser.Providers.Manager.MetadataService`2.<RunCustomProvider>d__41.MoveNext() even though ffrobe had no trouble being manually run on the files. the ffprobe error is still apparent on a refresh of the objects. wonder if the cache from the primary id provider is related to my separate recorded issue of some of my artists identifying manually fine, but not being fetched automatically by a scan library task....

Hello all. I am new to these forums but not to MB which I use the past 4 years. I recently upgraded and supported MB3. I use MB classic and server. I ran into a problem: No matter how much HDD space I have free, eventually it will get eaten up by MB server metadata downloads. Is there a way to configure MB in order for it to use up to a specified amount of HDD space? Thank you all in advance. dzoulias

Sorry if this is a repost, but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere.... All I need is a simple explanation of how to refresh my entire database in one go (if possible), and whether this can be achieved by a simple restart, an option in the menu, or by deleting a cache folder? Clean install? Or other method? Obviously I'm new to all this... My problem arises from originally having MB set up wrong, and now that it's configured the right way, I'm still left with some oddly incorrect metadata and am trying to find a way to simply refresh (rewrite) it all. For example, all of my "sort name" metadata in my television folder is missing key episode information: 'Adventure Time - S01E20 - Freak City.mp4' is labeled under sort name '001-Freak City' (missing episode info) but a quick manual refresh gets it correctly to '001-0020 - Freak City' I save it and all is good. Except, I really don't want to do this for EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, because that would be mad. Any help would be beyond awesome.

Hi, I'm using chocolate theme and I create mediainfo/chocolate directory to store own rating icons. This worked fine. Now I changed the look of the icons, but I still see the old once. I restarted MB server and also the computer, but I had no luck. Can sombody tell me where teh icons are cached that I can clear them? Thanks.

I am running out of space due to metadata and i think i figured out why. Both metabrowser and media browser are downloading meta data for some titles. That means I have a few too many image files and they are clogging up my HTPC client SSDs. I would like to delete all of the jpg files from my NAS share, reprocess the images and then repopulate the media browser caches. Will that plan work to rebuild the image caches in both the classic and server directories? Cheers,