Advanced Options

The Advanced options dialog can be displayed by selecting Tools > Options, Other tab and click 'Advanced...'

Media Library Performance Settings:

If you are using Smart Pix with large media libraries (in excess of 20,000 file records) you may find that the default options make Smart Pix sluggish. Setting the following options will significantly improve performance:

Limit caching of display records

Smart Pix caches the entire set of display records (i.e. all records of files in the current media library) in memory to allow full sorting, grouping and faster navigation. However with very large media libraries, this may cause Smart Pix Manager to load very slowly. To speed up loading select this option and choose a smaller record cache size such as 2000 records.

Note: If you disable caching of all records then you will only be able to sort on the following fields when in Media Library mode: Filename, Path, File Type, Windows Type

Cache all records when performing media library searches

If checked, then the cache is not limited when performing searches on media library files (do not use this option if your searches generally return more than 2000 files)

Do not display all media library files, only allow searches

If this option is selected then Smart Pix does not display its entire media library by default in media library mode. Users will only be able to view the media library by performing a keyword or description search. This option is only recommended for extremely large media libraries or media libraries accessed over a slow network

Other Media Library Settings:

Always check correct CD/DVD is inserted

If this is true and a file is missing from a CD/DVD then it is actually checked first to ensure that it is the correct CD/DVD before announcing that it needs to be inserted

Share access to Smart Pix Media Libraries (lowers performance)

By default Smart Pix is optimized for single access to its media library which gives improved performance. If the media library you are accessing is shared then check this option.

Display error thumbnail for files that are unavailable

If you are using saving your thumbnails in the Smart Pix media library, then, by default, a thumbnail is displayed even for images that are not available (e.g. on a CD/DVD that is not inserted). However if you check this item, a special thumbnail (featuring a '?') will be displayed for missing files instead.

Thumbnail Loading

Don't load thumbnails for images larger than x MB

Creating thumbnails for very large images can slow down the browsing of files. This option allows you to disable the thumbnailing of very large images to speed up browsing

Don't load thumbnails for videos larger than x MB

Generating thumbnails for videos can slow down the browsing of your files. This option allows you to disable the thumbnailing of very large images to speed up browsing

Load Explorer Thumbnails for:

Allows you to specify particular formats for which Smart Pix Manager retrieve the thumbnail from Windows Explorer for, typical formats for this are AVI and MPEG

Other Options

Delay loading of full image until required

Speeds up the display of JPEG images by optimizing the loading to match the zoom level (e.g. for an image at less than 50% zoom it only loads half of the available JPEG pixels)

Do not modify the file date when editing and saving

By default, Windows will modify the date of files when you save them, if you select this option then your files will keep their original date even if you edit or save them in this software

Use Lossless rotation and cropping for JPEG images

Specifies whether JPEG images are rotated and cropped using a lossless (no image quality is lost) or lossy (some quality will be lost upon saving) routine

Force lowercase for links and references when creating HTML

If you are uploading thumbnail indexes created in this program to a UNIX web server (which are case sensitive), it is recommended that you force lowercase references and set all files to lowercase as you upload them

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